Water Gardening: Pond story, 1 by pbtxlady

pbtxlady wrote:
So, I basically started over. Cleaned up and hauled away all that subsoil and trash. Moved the paver patio over and rebuilt the bottom pool, this time with a flexible liner. I had other gardening projects going on, so it took most of a year to do all of that.

The second build was not as easy as the first. I had a 3-foot hole right up next to my window that had to be filled. I am not proficient with concrete, so I tried to fill it with that hard clay and some sand. That might have worked if I was still using a rigid liner, but it didn't work with the flexible liner. That whole area was very crumbly and unstable. I still didn't have enough room to get to the window, and if I did crawl in there, more sand and dirt would crumble away. The rocks were always falling off into the pond. Because the pond was wider now, I had a much bigger problem with the slope. And I couldn't ever get the flagstone to line the pond in a way I liked. I was just never happy with that version of the pond, and I didn't take many pictures. Here's one from 2009.