Water Gardening: Raised Ponds easy, cheap, fun and portable, 1 by LhasaLover

LhasaLover wrote:
Here is a pic of the autofill.. we drilled as high as we could go to palce it and it is easy to adjust the float where I want the water level. Dad first bought a long float.. I had him go back to buy a shorter one. The plants usually mostly cover it. This is the end where everything comes out the back.. the electric cord to the pump and that white thing is the light rope I have attached along the inner edge of the pond.. it works soooo much better than any of those expensive pond lights. I went through a fortune in lights before I came up with that cheap solution.. two years and still haven't had to replace that 9.00 dollar investment. That was one after Christmas buy that was WELL worth it. I lowered the water level a few inches.. drilled holes up really high around the edge...and used those plastic zip ties to attach the light rope. I then used aquarium silicone to fill in the holes ... let dry for 2 hours then raised the water level. ... I LOVE my lights. Have them on a timer under a plastic bin behind the pond. I put it in another plastic tub so if water should stand in the area it won't get wet and the bin on top keeps it dry from any splash or rain. All electrical ends and anything that might be possibly exposed is in that plastic container. Raised safe and dry.