Water Gardening: 2X4X6 galvanized livestock watering trough as a water featur, 1 by MollyMc

MollyMc wrote:
LouC, your trough pond is wonderful!!!!! I too made a pond out of a field trough.

We had to transfer some sand from one spot to another to cover some pipes, so I ended up with a huge hole in the ground......so I sunk the trough in the ground. Mine is a 300 gallon 32 inch deep rubbermaid product.

I decided today that I need to get another one. The plants I put in there have gotten really unruly. I was given 3 water lilies to add to the one I already had. Amazingly, the new 3 grown from kits actually survived. Now there is way too much surface coverage and the lilies can't see the sun to bloom. Today I pulled 2 lilies out and put them into 2 - 5 gallon buckets of rain water. I don't think they will last long like that, so need to get that other pond going.

Gregg, I wouldn't mind having your riverwalk as a lap pool for myself, sans the gator.

Molly
:^)))