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| My Water Garden and Fish Pond | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| I am so excited to have the opportunity to post my pond pictures here for you to see. I've worked hard to extend, fill, and complete my new back yard. The upper terrace of the yard is my new hidey hole complete with a goldfish pond. For now, I will post pictures of my garden. Soon to follow will be some of the best water gardening links I've found. |
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| CONSTRUCTION | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Not everyone is lucky enough to have a Bobcat on site when they are putting their pond together. I happened to have major reconstruction of my yard occurring at the time. The 250 yards of sandy fill was easy to dig through and set my liner in. That was the ONLY easy part of this project. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Note that I left plenty of room in the corner to build up my pile of loam and rock for my waterfall! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The day I decided to fill the pond and build the waterfall, it rained...and hard! We had terrible thunderstorms and received more than 3 inches of water in an hour or so. Needless to say, my pond turned into a mud bog. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| That evening, my brother and I installed a dedicated GFI outlet to supply electricity to the pump and waterfall. I emptied out the muddy water, refilled, and VIOLA! My plants were happier. The soon to be introduced fish will be happy too! |
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| Click here for Dave's Fish and Garden Photos |
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