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Article by: Robert Dorrance The location , Lighting your Garden with Perennial Bulbs of your pond , Caring For Your Juniper Bonsai should be decided. You've picked a good spot in your yard , Good Tools and Hard Work is What Creates EyeCatching and Functional Gardens where you can see the pond , Organic Gardening Intro from different places, , Why are Adirondack Chairs & Adirondack Furniture a Cottage Favorite? and it's near enough to the house , Create and Furnish Your Outdoor Room so you can see it from a window. , Easy Concrete Pavers This is really part of the fun because you can visualize the landscaping , How to Read a Seed Catalog ideas you'll be incorporating into the pond , The Most Essential Gardening Equipment area once the dig is finished. The first thing to do is outline the perimeter of your pond. , Introduction to Snow Blowers Avoid square or sharp corners because your pond , Selection Of Garden Tractors liner will conform much better to a freeform round or kidney shape. You should also have made the decision by this time about the size of the design. , 6 Indoor Plants That Love The Dark: A Tip From The Garden Center Nursery I would strongly suggest not going too small. I changed the size of our pond , Why are Adirondack Chairs & Adirondack Furniture a Cottage Favorite? two times because the first and second time just weren't big enough. Lay out the final design , Organic Gardening Intro and size on the ground where you plan , Why are Adirondack Chairs & Adirondack Furniture a Cottage Favorite? to dig with a can of spray paint. , Lawn Furniture The next thing to decide is the depth of the pond. , Grass Clippings I would suggest at least twenty four to thirty six inches. Our pond , Natural Algae Fighters That Work is thirty six to forty eight inches deep and the main reason is the fact that we have fish. , Lighting your Garden with Perennial Bulbs Some of our fish , Create and Furnish Your Outdoor Room are quite large, we have two Koi's that are about eighteen inches long and they definitely need the room. , Grass Clippings If you're going to have fish, , Have Fun and be Creative - Get the Look for Less or think you might get fish , Decorate Your Outdoor Spaces on a Budget! in the future, then don't skimp on pond , Growing A Brush Cherry Bonsai In Your Garden depth. If you live in a cold winter , Selection Of Garden Tractors climate like we do, then the fish , Fertilizers - What you Need to Feed Your Lawn need room , BBQ Food is the Mental Cue that Summer is Here at the bottom to winter , Palm Trees over. Like I mentioned previously, we haven't lost a fish , Grass Clippings to the winter , Plants To Grow Old With or The Constant Battle in the eight years we've had our pond. , US Flag Etiquette Keep in mind that you want to keep the top 'shoreline"Ā¯ edges pretty level. The reason for this is that once you put the liner in and fill the pond , 6 Important Tips for Beginner Bonsai Tree Caretakers with water , Getting Tulips to Bloom for Two Months in Your Garden you won't have a large piece of the liner showing on the high side of the hole. Also as you dig, remember that you are going to want a ledge most of the way around the perimeter of the hole, about six to twelve inches down from the top and about twelve inches wide. This will provide you with a "shelf"Ā¯ to set your pond plants , Easy Concrete Pavers on. Once the hole is dug and shaped to your satisfaction and with any protruding sharp rocks removed to provide a relatively smooth surface for the liner to rest on, then you are ready to install the liner. Here are the quick calculations to figure the size of your liner: Length: Length of the dug out area plus two feet plus the depth plus three feet. Width: Width of the dug out area plus two feet plus the depth plus three feet. For Example: The hole is ten feet long by six feet wide and the depth is three feet. Therefore, the liner LENGTH is 10 + 2 +3 +3 = 18 feet. And the WIDTH is 6 + 2 +3 + 3 = 14 feet. So the needed liner size is 18 feet long and 14 feet wide. Some people have lined the dug hole with old carpet , Why are Adirondack Chairs & Adirondack Furniture a Cottage Favorite? scraps to provide a little extra cushion under the liner and also a little more protection in case a sharp rock may have escaped detection. Personally, I didn't do this and we haven't had any leakage problems. So, now it's time to install the liner. Make it easier and get some help for this operation. Position the liner over the hole, trying to keep an even overlap on all four sides. Next push the liner down into the hole as evenly as you can, keeping in mind that you want the overlap to be as equal as possible all the way around the hole. When you are satisfied that the liner is positioned correctly, place , You Can Grow Your Own Herb Garden - Part 6 a few heavy rocks on the overlap equally spaced around the pond. , US Flag Etiquette Now it's time to start filling the pond. , Grass Clippings Obviously, the smaller the pond, , An Outdoor Swing is A Great Way to Relax the quicker the fill. A large pond , Choosing the Right Lawn Mower can take quite a while, and while it is filling use the time to disperse the liner evenly so that you don't get a lot of large folds. You're bound to get some folds but if you work on smoothing them out as the water , Decorate Your Outdoor Spaces on a Budget! is going in the end result will be a nicer appearance. If you have to make any moves to even out the overlap, do it before too much water , You Can Grow Your Own Herb Garden - Part 6 is added because it gets heavy fairly quickly and once the weight of the water , Types Of Palm Trees takes over you won't be moving anything. As the pond , Outdoor Wood Furniture – Check the Wood Species Before Purchasing fills and the liner conforms to the shape of the hole and you see that your overlap around the edges is looking pretty good, then you can start to relax because the hard part is done.Robert Dorrance has had a pond , Fertilizers - What you Need to Feed Your Lawn for the last eight years and would like to share his experiences with you. You can read other articles and download my free e-book, "How To Build A Beautiful Backyard , Getting Tulips to Bloom for Two Months in Your Garden Pond at http://www.Backyard-Pond-Guide.com |
  
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