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Cattails are a common phenomenon within many North American environments, most especially occurring in or around bodies of water, and at first appearing fairly innocuous. Initially you may see one of these plants and dismiss it. You may just think that same thing the following day, and the next day, and maybe many days following that, till that definitive day you peer outside, and your entire pond is taken over to a point where you require an air-boat to get through it as if you were situated in the everglades.

Now that you’ve been invaded by the evil army of the cattail, what sort of offensive will you do? Will you rally the troops and run in with guns (or pesticides) firing at will? Or will you choose guerrilla tactics? The methods are completely up to you, since no matter which method you choose, those cattails are not sentient, so they won’t notice you coming, meaning that you will always possess the element of surprise. That additionally entails that you can probably get rid of the camouflage and take the paint off of your face.  The binoculars and gas mask likely won’t be needed either.

The options available to you are many for cattail removal, and naturally, since the pond is yours (unless for some reason you have set out to attack the next door neighbor’s pond), you’re free to choose any of the following methods:

Physical Removal – You are naturally, free to try pulling those cattails yourself. But if you do that, attempt to pull them when they’re very young, lest they take strong root and end up extremely hard to pull. This would additionally turn into a all order, because around the time you start eliminating them, odds are they have already taken over your pond, and there will be a lot of them.

Cutting – You can cut the cattails, though keeping mind that it’s wise to cut them somewhere around one inch below the water line so as to deprive them of oxygen and kill them.

Lowering the Water Line – Cattails, just like any other living creature, need water to survive. Through lowering the pond’s water line, and ensuring those plants don’t receive everything they require, you will find that they die out pretty fast, unless of course they have already spread seeds, in which case you will need to do this again the following year. If you have no issue with lowering and raising the water level in your pond every single year, then that would be a realistic choice.

Pesticides – This should be a last resort, because pesticides can hurt any organic life in your pond, which sort of defeats the reason for having a pond. Regardless, you can continue purchase any herbicides that you need from stores, or the Internet. Simply remember the risks.

Remember this, you may believe cattails are a major issue and you need to destroy each and every of them, but know that cattails help stop erosion, and that’s definitely a good thing. Therefore leave at least a few cattails alive, since every creature (wasps excluded) has a reason for living, even though that reason is as yet unknown.