Water Gardening: New Pond, 0 by VbSparky

VbSparky wrote:
Got me a good deal on some flat rocks so up went a pond.
i said up becouse i tried to dig and only got 3 inches then hit
a 4 inch root from the maple tree. what better to spoil a 6am
project. so off i went to get a trailer load of topsoil.

I used the topsoil to build up a mote where i wanted the pond
dumping a 5 gal pail of dirt and packing it down.
I just kept doing this till i got a good size berm with a nice flat
top about 8 inches wide to lay the rocks on.

then i stacked my rocks around it, working my way up, then caped
it off with more of the rocks. built a falls and the start of a biofilter.

after i got it all done I thought , hay some lites would be neet.
So i fed some wire in and out behind the rocks and wired it up to
those high intensity LED lights like whats on a key chain.
sealed the wireing up with a rubber product called coax seal.
this stuff is really sticky till it gets wet.

ok , here are some pics

my 40 bucks of rocks





This message was edited Jul 18, 2005 10:11 AM