Bonkersbon's Blog
23 Apr, 2008
8 comments
Wildlife pond update an idiots guide as made by one! PART 2
Rule 5 – Dont drop all your sand in the middle of the pond! Allow it to slide down shelves and smooth with plasterers float. Leave base of pond till last.
Rule 6 – If like me you thought well will sort liner out at week end.Youll have several days of nocturnal visitors some most unwelcome as local cat population will use it as a giant litter tray.
Hence advice to get liner down asap.
Rule 7 – When filling your pond so much easier if you have an outside tap.I know rainwater recommended but Id need everyones water butts in a hundred mile radius.Pays to go and check on tap connection occassionally it takes forever to fill and not advisable to begin making a bench whilst hose has come off tap and left plug in sink!
Rule 8 – Really important dont promise to be completed by a certain date esp a birthday . If you find it hard to say no to the woman in your life then try and ensure she was born on the 29th of February . Gives you so much more time.
Comments
23 Apr, 2008
Well, Bonkers, that's settled it - NO POND in my garden... (no suitable space, anyway, unless I dig up my newly curvaceous lawn... lol) P.S. Well done for getting there in the end!
24 Apr, 2008
I will memorise your rules, print them off and stick them to the door of our hut for when we come to attempt the same next year - make more sense than anything I've read in a book!
25 Apr, 2008
Thanks for comments .Well Sid of course I flooded the kitchen Jane really impressed that found time to clean floor! Spritz you already have a lovely stream think a pond would see you permanently water gardening.
Thanks Buzzbee it seems so simple in the books beautiful photos the people constructing them always spotless.The blogs were intended to say if I can do it anyone can.Hopefully my mistakes and mishaps will ease your construction. theres more to come decking water feature pump lighting wall path etc .PS Grenville if I fell in never get out 3 feet deep in places.
26 Apr, 2008
I really appreciate your sense of humour... because that's what is needed first and foremost in any DIY project. You can take that to the bank! I too have seen the lovely glossilly photo'ed books and the step by step how-to text but the best teacher is experience...and I don't know of any gardener who would willingly subject themselves to the attendant stresses of a repeat performance unless they were some kind of masochist. (that from personal experience) So it goes without saying that getting the word out to potential pond builders is the most altruistic thing you can do... and bless you for it.
I have had the pleasure twice...and no I'm not admitting to masochism...I had a mess to clean up and decided while I was at it to make it a little bigger!.
26 Apr, 2008
Thank you for that Lori we do have a habit of forgetting the trials of such things. The number of times I ve said never again only to move to a house and garden requiring more work than the last.Most gardeners seem to have an optimistic approach and even the most well known ones admit to failures.Perhaps not quite with my level of consistency but these are our own personal spaces and so long as we respect the enviroment they re in who are we harming.?
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Grenville
23 Apr, 2008
Rule 9- Dont slip and fall in as I have on several occasions !!!!!
Best wishes,
Grenville.