Put in a pond?

ducks4you said:

I put bricks down at ground level so that I can mow around my beds by running the wheels of my push behind mower right over the bricks. Maybe you could do that at the bottom of your pond? I HATE, HATE, HATE the 5 minutes of work/55 minutes of repair using string trimmers!!!

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Smart Red said:

I don't find my small pond -- just big enough for my son's dog -- to be much of a problem or much work. Although, I do intend to redo the whole thing later this summer to make keeping the weeds down easier by making the edges mow-able.
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Mini-papyrus, curly reeds, and two water lilies sit in the water along with a dozen-ish goldfish, an increasing number of different frogs, and lots of toad tadpoles. Occasionally a passing bird will bring in fish eggs that hatch or (once) a blood sucker that faired well until it latched onto me.

Leaves in the fall is my biggest problem -- that and no electricity. . . . yet. . and I do know how to address that if I choose. Of course, I bring the fish inside for the winter. That could be a bit more work if I didn't have the sunroom to winter them in.

Even with your husband's patio taking up part of the space, there is NOTHING so relaxing as the sound of falling water. I love watching the variety of birds attracted to my pond by day and love watching the bats swooping down to get a drink or to catch an insect attracted to the (solar) lights. It is a whole new learning environment for the little ones.

Hopefully, once the pond is redone, we can keep DS's great Dane from jumping in for a dip.

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Nyboy said:

I love my ponds have small one in city and very large natural one in country. Can be a lot of work in begning, if you want fish more work. Once pond has been up and runing only few mintues a week. unlike a garden, the bigger you go the easlier it is to keep. The smaller the pond the less forgiving it is.

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Carol Dee said:

Since you have most of the big items to get started I say go for it. As for wintering the fish over we put them in a stock tank in the unheated lean to on the garage with a stock tank heater just warm enough that ice does not form.
Our Koi pond is not real big. Rectangular with a small upper pool that flows over a rock ledge into the lower part. It is filtered and sent up onto the deck where is runs out of an antique hand pump into a 1/2 whiskey barrel that then empties into the upper pool. I will try to get a good photo of the set up. It is home to about 6 med/lg Koi and assortment of frogs/toads. Several water lilies and a cattail.
Like Red said it is so relaxing to sit and listen to the water and critters. Although having it right outside the BR the toads do court LOUDLY!

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