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Article by: Brett Fogle Surprisingly enough, it is usually in mid-summer that many gardeners begin to think about installing a small pond , A Teak Table - Accent Your Outdoor Decor With One or water garden. , Lawnmower Maintenance Tips That Help Produce The Best Lawns Ponds , What Type of Gazebo is Right for You? Top Questions You Need to Ask don't need to be weeded or watered, and they can supply exuberant color , How Do I Keep My Pond From Turning Green? in the form of water , Palm Trees lilies and bog plants. , Cheap Ideas For Garden Landscaping The sound of a splashing fountain or waterfall , Colour in the Garden is more appealing than weeding a flower , Tool Sheds bed or mowing that section of lawn. Best of all, no matter how hot , Finding the Best Pond Pumps or wet it gets, the pond just keeps on blooming! At this point you may start to think about the expense and labor of installing a concrete pond, , With So Many Choices For Patio Furniture, Finding The Perfect Set To Complement Your Yard Is Easy and our 95 degree days are just about enough to stop this pond , Backyard Landscape Plan - Think About Your Family's Lifestyle First daydream in its tracks. However, with the advent of newer pond , Cheap Ideas For Garden Landscaping liners and pre-formed pools, the misery associated with concrete , Attract Butterflies To Your Garden! mixing and finishing is a thing of the past. Heavy duty pool liners with 10 year guarantees are now common, and can sell for as little as $1.00 a square foot. Preformed ponds , Things You Should Consider When Buying Your First Garden Leaf Blower in many different shapes and sizes are also an alternative method to create a quick pond , Finding the Best Pumps at less cost than using concrete. , Koi Pond Aeration Using these materials, the average gardener can install a decent size pond , Backyard Landscape Plan - Think About Your Family's Lifestyle First in less than one day, and have it stocked with plants, , Attract Butterflies To Your Garden! fish , Abatement Conflicts with Eco-Systems and fountain by the following morning. The simplest kind of pond , Abatement Considerations and Common Sense to build is an above-the-ground pond. Since no digging is required, it usually takes much longer to fill this pond , A Home Garden – Fun for the Whole Family with water , The Coliseum Is One Of The Best Complete Hydroponic Systems On The Market than it does to build it! There are many variations on this theme, but as an example, one can use treated lumber planks which are at least 2 inches thick by 12 inches wide, nail , Finding the Best Pond Pumps them together to form a rectangular shape of the desired dimensions, and place , Tillandsia "Airplants" - Don't Plant These Plants! the form where the pond , How Do I Keep My From Turning Green? is desired. This bottomless "box" can be placed directly on the grass, , Tips for Choosing a Chiminea for Your Backyard or Patio concrete, a deck, , Fruit Trees - How To Save Your Fruit Tree Blossoms From A Spring Freeze etc., and then the bottom is covered with some kind of padding or cushioning material. Most books say to use sand, , Cheap Ideas For Garden Landscaping but I think the perfect material is roofing , Things You Should Consider When Buying Your First Garden Leaf Blower felt. It is cheap, convenient, lies flat, , Abatement Considerations and Common Sense makes a barrier to weeds, , Garden Design: Plant a Woodland Gardens with Minimal Effort and Expense and provides a good cushion for the pool liner. Once the roofing , Landscape Photography & Painting felt is in place, , Backyard Landscape Plan - Think About Your Family's Lifestyle First the pool liner can be dropped into the form and you begin filling the pond , How To Waterproof a Canvas with water. A few staples on the outside , Care Tips for Planting and Growing Orchids Inside Your House of the pond , Rose Planting - Tips and Advice form may be needed to keep the liner from blowing into the pond, , Tips for Choosing a Chiminea for Your Backyard or Patio but be sure to use just a few, and place , Care Tips for Planting and Growing Orchids Inside Your House them at the edge of the liner. As the pond , Attract Butterflies To Your Garden! fills, the weight of the water , Tips for Choosing a Chiminea for Your Backyard or Patio will do a good job in smoothing out wrinkles, but if you are a perfectionist, you can help smooth them out by hand before there is more than one inch of water , Abatement Conflicts with Eco-Systems in the bottom of the pond. , Tips for Choosing a Chiminea for Your Backyard or Patio While the pond , Koi Aeration is beginning to fill, you can check the level of the form, and if it needs to be raised a little on one or two sides, this can be done by carefully inserting some shims to raise the forms where needed. If you prefer the pond , Natural Garden Pest Control to overflow on a certain side (like, into the flower , Lawnmower Maintenance Tips That Help Produce The Best Lawns bed, rather than onto the deck! , Lawnmower Maintenance Tips That Help Produce The Best Lawns ) then you may want to leave the overflow side a quarter inch lower than the rest of the pond. , Colour in the Garden You should wait until the pond , Abatement Conflicts with Eco-Systems is completely filled before cutting any excess liner or doing any permanent stapling. This will give the water , A Home Garden – Fun for the Whole Family pressure enough time to pull the liner into every nook and cranny where it needs to go; some of those few holding staples which you used to hold the liner in place may actually tear loose as the pond , What to Feed Your Fish During Colder Winter Months fills, but if you stapled the liner on the outside , Tool Sheds of the form, near the edges, then no harm is done... you will be trimming some of that excess liner off, anyway. It really does take longer to fill this kind of pond , Care Tips for Planting and Growing Orchids Inside Your House than it does to build it. I once built a twenty-by-thirty foot pond , Discount Patio Furniture – An Easy Way to Get the Best in two hours but it took all night for it to fill with water. , Colour in the Garden I think an ideal depth for an above ground pond , Poly Tarps For Home and Garden: More Than Meets The Eye is about 14 inches, but it can be deeper or more shallow than that, depending on what materials you are using for the form. Railroad ties, landscape , Abatement Considerations and Common Sense timbers, concrete , Waterfall Ponds blocks, etc. are all possible materials for pond building. , Cheap Ideas For Garden Landscaping Remember that any kind of wood , Gardening with Garden Decor must be pressure treated if you want it to last more than a year! Although I mentioned rectangular shape, if you have some carpentry skills, , Tool Sheds you can also do triangles, pentagons, ponds , Strawbale Construction Wins Hands Down within ponds, , The Coliseum Is One Of The Best Complete Hydroponic Systems On The Market etc. Ponds built with treated lumber planks do not need any side support if they are less than 8 feet or 10 feet long; if you are building , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction to Hydroponics Gardening for Beginners (part 16) Temperature larger than that, you will want to drive a stake into the ground where the planks are to be nailed together, so the water , Tillandsia "Airplants" - Don't Plant These Plants! pressure won't make the planks bow outward. So, if you know how to , Tuberous Begonias use twelve nails , Indoor Gardening With Foliage Plants to nail , With So Many Choices For Patio Furniture, Finding The Perfect Set To Complement Your Yard Is Easy four planks together, then you can build a pond. , How To Waterproof a Canvas If you are feeling lazy, have the lumber yard , Planting Around Tree Roots cut the planks to size you need. Borrow your neighbor's staple gun, find those scissors buried in the kitchen drawer, and you are in business! Pond liners can also be used to make an in the ground pond. , The Coliseum Is One Of The Best Complete Hydroponic Systems On The Market The advantage is that you can make any shape pond , Poly Tarps For Home and Garden: More Than Meets The Eye you want, and the ground itself supports the sides of the liner. It is a good idea to use a flexible garden , Fence Companies hose to lay out the pool shape you want. Once everyone agrees that it is a pleasant shape, and it is large enough, you can dig a trench along side the hose, and start digging. Remember, the pool does not have to be more than 12 to 16 inches deep, so don't get carried away. If you want a waterfall, some of the excavated soil , Backyard Landscape Plan - Think About Your Family's Lifestyle First can be mounded up near the pond , Dog Days of Summer for later waterfall , Tool Sheds construction. In some cases, it may be useful to use some of the soil , Planning Tips for Compact Courtyard Gardens for a berm around the pond, so that is another way to dispose of excavated soil. , Tool Sheds Once the pond , General Lawn Maintenance Tips is excavated, check the level, decide which side you want excess rainfall to flow from, and then you are ready to line the hole with roofing , Attract Butterflies To Your Garden! felt, running it across the pond, up the sides onto the edges of the pond. , Garden Design: Plant a Woodland Gardens with Minimal Effort and Expense Drop the liner in, weigh it down lightly with some rocks around the edges, and start filling. Again, do not trim any excess liner until the pond , Strawbale Construction Wins Hands Down is completely filled. Some pond , How Do I Keep My From Turning Green? books say you should create a shallow shelf in the pond , Care Tips for Planting and Growing Orchids Inside Your House before putting in the liner, but they don't have our river sand , Things You Should Consider When Buying Your First Garden Leaf Blower and rainfall to deal with. I think it is better to build the pond , Planting Around Tree Roots to a depth of 14-16 inches, and just use bricks to prop up those bog plants , Natural Garden Pest Control that don't want to sit too deep in water. , Gardening with Garden Decor This gives greater flexibility in rearranging the pond plants , Palm Trees as you wish, and avoids the calamity of a shelf suddenly slumping into the pool. When using pool liners, whether in the ground or above the ground, it is important to conceal the edges from sunlight, since that is what eventually breaks down most liners. Using stones , Attract Butterflies To Your Garden! or lumber planks to finish off the edge of your pond will make it more appealing, and enable the liner to live up to its ten year guarantee. Even the heavier, preformed plastic ponds , Landscape Photography & Painting should have their edges covered by sod or some paving material, so the sun , Natural Garden Pest Control can't reach it. Some final pointers: if possible, locate your pond , Koi Aeration away from trees, , Attracting Birds To Your Garden in a place that gets at least five hours of direct sun , Tick Bites daily. This will allow you to grow , Tillandsia "Airplants" - Don't Plant These Plants! a wide variety of pond plants. , How To Waterproof a Canvas Be sure to use a dechlorinating product , Things You Should Consider When Buying Your First Garden Leaf Blower when you first fill the ponds. , 5 Easy Steps To A Successful Residential Landscaping Project. .. the new chemicals in our drinking water , A Teak Table - Accent Your Outdoor Decor With One do not dissipate quickly and they will kill your fish , Garden Design: Plant a Woodland Gardens with Minimal Effort and Expense and damage your plants, even ten days after you have filled the pond! , Poly Tarps For Home and Garden: More Than Meets The Eye Be sure you are pleased with the size and shape of your pond before you start - so you won't say "I should have made it bigger, or longer, or rounder, etc.", within two hours of filling it! Rule number one in pond building , A Home Garden – Fun for the Whole Family is that no matter how big your pond , The Coliseum Is One Of The Best Complete Hydroponic Systems On The Market is, you always want a bigger one. Last, but not least, if you decide to do an in-the-ground pond, why not serve refreshments and get some friends to help . . . friends will have all kinds of useful ideas on how you should do it ... which is fine, as long as they keep digging...************************************************** Brett Fogle is the owner of MacArthur Water Gardens , What to Feed Your Fish During Colder Winter Months and several other pond-related websites including MacArthurWatergardens.com and Pond-Filters-Online.com. He also publishes a free monthly newsletter called PondStuff! with a reader circulation of over 9,000. To sign up for the free newsletter and receive our FREE 'New Pond , Care Tips for Planting and Growing Orchids Inside Your House Owners Guide' visit MacArthur Water Gardens , General Lawn Maintenance Tips today! ************************************************** |
  
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