Water Gardening: Started digging today!, 1 by Wvdaisy

Wvdaisy wrote:
Here's the pond with 1800 gallons of water. It needs at least 600 more gallons in it but have found a couple of nail holes at the upper part of the liner at the far end that need patched first. Have plants and 6 3-4" Koi from my Mom's pond in it, 1 14" Golden Orf(named Goldie) from the pet store is in already. Have 27 more Koi sizes ranging 3-8" in tubs on the porch going through quarantine before going in the pond. Desperately needing shade at this point and the lilies aren't producing pads fast enough. Will look for some Hyacinth to help shade, I have a few pieces but not enough to help this size pond until they multiply quite a bit. Have 2 pumps churning water until the plant pond and waterfall is built.

Going to have to trap some raccoons, have already seen paw prints on the liner and chased one off the back porch last night. Hubby will borrow some live traps from co-workers, one co-worker trains coon dogs so he'll take the coons for training purposes. It's either that or hubby spends the night out by the pond with his rifle :~)

Lana