Water Gardening: Keeping Topsoil from washing into pond, 1 by DebinSC

DebinSC wrote:
Update: In between various "moving in" activities, I've been slowly working on the pond. I laid plastic around the edges, carving out just enough holes for a couple of plants, then walled it all off with the wood. (The previous owners had left a pile of pressure-treated lumber in the back yard.)

Dug a channel for water to run around the outside which has worked better than I expected so far.

And - of course - I've managed to put in some plants. Still can't get the water to completely clear, but it has improved. I'll post one more photo when it's completely finished. Going to finish it all off by camouflaging the "walls" with stones.

(PS, the green trash can holds a Lotus I started from seed. Pretty excited about that!)