Skylark Wrote: This stuff is driving me crazy in the old smithy pond - for some reason, touch wood, we eradicated it here in the cottage pond & I'm not too sure how! It's a never ending battle scooping it all out, endless, slimey strands of the stuff! I was wondering if any of you have ponds & this weed & how you manage it? Straw bales I've heard work, but we did try that once & it made no difference, the blanket weed just grew all over it!!!!

Any tips please

Barley straw bales are for green algae Skylark.

There are some chemical solutions to blanket weed but I prefer to get rid of it the hard way which means dipping one's hand in the pond!