Pond Help!!!!?

i live in south alabama, close to the florida line, and i have a fish pond that is fairly big. here recently in the last year it has been overtaken by lily pads. there is only one patch that you can actually see water, and the rest is filled with nothing but lily pads. any suggestions on how to get rid of this madness? it makes my whole yard look like ****, and im tried of it...please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pond Help!!!!?
Westerdahl and Getsinger report excellent control of the fragrant waterlily with glyphosate. Good control was obtained with endothall dipotassium salt and fluridone. Generally glyphosate is the recommended herbicide for waterlily control because it can be directly applied to the floating leaves, unlike fluridone of endothall which must be applied to the water. The application of glyphosate allows specific plants or areas of plants to be targeted for removal. Generally two applications of glyphosate are needed. The second application controls the plants that were missed during the first herbicide application. A drawback of using herbicides, is the %26quot;uplifting%26quot; of mats of decomposing waterlily roots that can form large floating islands in the waterbody after the herbicides have killed the plants. Harvesting waterlilies before treating the water with a systemic herbicide such as fluridone has been shown to stress the plants and provide greater impact of the herbicide to the plants (as was demonstrated during the 1991 fluridone application to Long Lake, Thurston County in Washington).





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