How many ponders are out there????????? List your names.

The buisness you asked about at www.waterplants.com is a wonderful buisness. I have dealt with them for now going on 2 years. Only place I will order from. You can call and speak to the owner (Sandy) and she will help you in anyway possible. Very reasonable prices and EXCELLENT service. I recommend them 200%. Go for it.

Billy

Pond early summer 2002

sue

Newbie here ....... not new to DG, but new to pond stuff - have a small preformed on north side, right outside tall windows, so it is going to be a joy to watch what happens there. Racoons and herons will prevent much in the way of fish additions, but the plants and the flowing water aspect are so good for my soul!

We did a pond in 2002 also.. filled up around October.. put in 152 fish.. and I can't wait.. planted some cattails and some lilys.. put some bulbs around and some mums.. the guy that helped was a little miffed at me.. I was in his way trying to get plants in before it got toooo cold.. still having problems waiting for the green..Its cold and I want to see what is going to appear.. I will need some help and advice on water lillies and all the fun flowers to have floating.. weve been building for the last almost 2 years.. now fun time with landscaping and greenhouse and flowers and veggies and fish and turtles and frogs and flowers and more flowers. bon

My fifth year with a small pond. I love it during the summertime. I often sit with my morning coffee out there. Would love to add the pump and the small waterfall that's still waiting to be installed (still in box). I've enjoyed my pond immensely, wish I had more property and for sure the pond would be HUGE!

I am or will be as soon as I rebuild mine. Waiting until spring and $ to make it bigger and better. Toadlily I still have your plants from the round-up. Do not know if the lilys will come back again. Haigar that is no pond thats a lake. Do not buy the plastic premade one. Mine only lasted a year. Oh! dont cement in your rocks.

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I am a new member... I have a pond, it is small, established 2 years, racoons ate all but one fish (saw him yesterday, the fish I mean) have lilys, cyprus papyrus, and reeds. I think I will cover the pond with mesh so the racoons don't mix up my plants when they fish! LOL We are creating a shade garden on the Southern side of the house. I think a waterfall pond would be great, I could hear it from the bedroom.... how romantic. Jul

Me,too.

Ted,
I have plenty more so if you need a replacement, just let me know :-)

lost890 here but fading fast must have spring to make it need to dig in dirt soon or all is lost no more snow please

Does a big hole in the ground full of green water frogs and water lilies count. Anybody know how to stop the deer from eating the lilies?

have one here in OH too!!!

brucedean, the only thing I can think of to keep deer from eating those succulent lilies is to fence the area. And I think, yes, your big hole counts. LOL

Welcome to DG all of you newbies!

Hey Lani,castors hit the mail today,maybe that will deter them.:)

Thanks, Root. He is talking about some castor beans that I am getting from him to help me on my war against gophers. Maybe they would keep deer in check too.

Thanks never thought of Caster Beans. I know the chipmonks hate them.

I have a pond or two, or maybe three!!!I had to take one out last year to build the greenhouse. This spring I am building another one to take its place.

Here's mine in winter dress.
Kristi

Don't plant any castor beans next to the pond as the plants would be also poisonous to your fish. :~(

One more day of rain and my whole yard will be a pond.Oh well.

TARogers5, You state don't cement in your rocks. I have an edge of salvaged sandstone sidewalk slabs(try saying THAT 5 times real fast!!) surrounding my pond. It is two slabs thick and I was seriously considering cementing between the layers and maybe under the first one too to make the edge more stable. My nephew( age 11 and being a smarta** ) stepped right on the edge,tipped the slab and did a flip into the pond when the water was about 50º.The top slab went in with him and I had to retrieve it!!(He was wet, cold,had moss in his hair but otherwise OK.) Have you had problems after cementing? Thanks, MW

The rocks around the edge I cemented in place. But the weight of them on top of the Plastic Liner edge made the center of the liner bow up and crack. Now to remove the liner for repair or put plastic inside I must first remove all the rock. No easy task when in cement. You wont have that problem if you are using rubber or 45 mil sheet plastic sheeting. Mine was a preformed pond liner from Lowes.

Remember that cements and mortars contain masonary lime that will leach into the water. In a small pond it might make the water to alkaline to support fish.

Adding me to the list.

I'm a ponder.

I think I should be OK then because I have a rubber liner and the slabs don't come in contact with the water, Just overhang the edge. As long as I can do the cementing without dropping any concrete mix into the water. Thanks for clarifying that for me-now if you could just do something about clarifying that winter-skanky pondwater!! MW

2 ponds a flowing

I think with this many ponders, we should have a specific pond plant trading area along with pond discussion. What do you think about this? Help us Dave. LOL.

Me too! Our pond is 11'x 14'.
Dee

I have ponds too. 5000 gal, 250 gal, 50 gal, several mini dirt bogs outside, and 250 gal inside. Ponding is a sickness ;)

We have had 2 ponds for the past four yrs. but plan on digging them up and redoing them. Isn't that what makes gardening so much fun?

Will take pictures when we are doing them and then the finished products. Have to learn how to post them here thou!!

Maxine

Got a man coming over with a back hoe Monday to dig my old one out, remove a tree and dig another one in its place. Going from a five x nine to about fifteen X forty. I will need a lot of on line supervision. LOL
Going three foot deep on the downhill side.Should it taper down to the deep end. 25 foot wide material should give me five foot of overlap on each side for the walls and over the edge 3'x 2'. Should I get plastic or rubber? Hard PVC under the pond or flex around the edge? My well is sulfer water would it be ok for fish and plants? Got city water if not.

TARoger's, you have mail.

Im trying to be a ponder, I use to stick to large waterfalls in my home, But have now purchased a piece of property in cosby tn. and turned the seepage off the back of my hill into a pond,I started last year and hand dug, last week i hired a bulldozer and made it much larger. I have a creek at the bottom of my hill will eventually reroute some of that to a pond,

I 'm a ponder too. Have two ponds connected with tiny stream that runs from smaller one to larger one with a bridge over. And an about 10 gal plastic pond in my Bonsai Patio. I usually clean the smaller pond in spring ( of the two with bridge) but the larger one cleans itself when the pump is started. Donna

I'm a wanna be ponder! Reading up on everything I can find so I might do everything wrong only part of the time!

I'm IN ! I have one small one & starting a larger one soon. Plan to put in a bog gravel filter with it. I'm an addict!
have fun!

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Boy unless I missed her name up above I actually beet Gardenwife to a post. We have a pond and love it. I just cleaned it up yesterday and got it ready for this summer. We were bad and let it get a mess last fall. Then when they were doing our basement work the pump was unpluged and it froze over. So our two fish that we had are dead. But we will start agian.

Hello there Ponders.....Please add my name to the list.

Hedy :-))

We had two white hardy water lilies bloom this week, so that must mean that Spring is going to happen. SC has had
such strange weather this year. Our very large bull frogs
are laying around, some just floating on the water lilies. They seem very relaxed and glad to be out of their earth
homes.

Some of the bogs are starting to wake up. Each Spring I forget what I had growing the past year and am always surprised when those older plants come back.

Since I posted last time, our 4 1/2 acres turned into 12 acres but Zoning in Dorchester County has really put a kink
into our moving onto our land for several months. We will get past it but have accepted the fact that this summer we will be gardening out of our home in Summerville.

We have one very wet area on the front property and have
planted some Cat tails and old fashioned orange cannas there. I know they won't lack for water.

One of our goals is to grow bamboo for landscapers and such!
Anyone have any experience there.

The always unwelcome algae is back. Now, I need to
connect that brand new UV Light we just purchased. Would love to hear how the rest of you handle that problem.

Keep posting! I love hearing about everyone's experiences!

Stephanie in Summerville, SC