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Our second load of soil was delayed as the unfortunate skip man got locked out of his yard, wherein his lorry was trapped. But it arrived eventually and 127 trips through the house later, there was just about enough soil to finish the job.
We'll top it off with more soil and compost as and when we can, but for now this will do. We planted the first plants in it, transferred the waterlily to the new pond and refilled it and it's already looking better than the old pond. Now it needs a few annuals to brighten it up a bit and some bulbs for the spring.
We'll top it off with more soil and compost as and when we can, but for now this will do. We planted the first plants in it, transferred the waterlily to the new pond and refilled it and it's already looking better than the old pond. Now it needs a few annuals to brighten it up a bit and some bulbs for the spring.
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I'm also glad it was spread over two days and not all at once! But soon there will be pretty flowers :-)
We saved a big flexitub of water from the old pond, in which the lily has been living while we worked on the new one, so it had that, and while we topped the pond up with tap water, we ran it into a tub first and let it stand for a while to dissipate the chlorine.
The new pond should be a bit more frog friendly, I think. I've seen newts in the old pond and toads in the garden, so there's hope for amphibian residents.
Ok, boss :-) Only a few plants so far mind.
Five tons works out at about 318 trips!
Good grief! I'll bet you're having a nice quiet rest after all that earth-shifting! I hope that your furry friends don't start to excavate it, and that it'll soon look even better as the new plants grow and the new pond matures.
After today's torrential rain, our
junglegarden is hopping with frogs. There are several ponds in neighbouring gardens, so we often find frogs or toads among the long grass in ours; we have to look very carefully where we're going to avoid treading on them, and fish any out that have jumped into anything that's got water in it...It wasn't quite that bad, as we seem to have had a generously packed load for the second delivery - the first load of three tons took 137 trips, so we think the second lot of "two tons" was a wee bit more than that. So total of 264 trips. Rob is rather stiff today from the digging and has elected not to go out cycling as he is concerned that he might not be able to climb out of his velo as needed, poor thing. I feel remarkably all right - a little sore about the hands and a few muscles that know they've been working, but no worse than that. And the scales say I've lost a kilogram in two days :-)
Thank you! We're planning to toddle off to the garden centre later on and acquire some annuals to brighten things a bit.
We were lucky and didn't get more than a few drops of rain while moving the soil - just as well, it could have got much heavier and more unpleasnt to shift!
Yay for frogs! There were a couple of newts in the big pond when we emptied it, which I carefully rescued and put in the lily bucket, but I think they may have scarpered in the meantime.
Will you have something traily to come down over the egde here and there, or are you keeping it fairly straight?
Probably not, as the edge makes a handy place to sit, both for us and for the cats :-) Also we'll be leaning over to deadhead, plant and tidy, so traily things probably wouldn't have much hope!
We shall be looking for some stuff to disguise the edge of the pond a bit though.
Rest well and dream of the flowers to come.
:D
Pictures of flowers will be along shortly :-)
You must not have mosquitoes where you live then.
Any water without mosquito-eating fishies in it means swarms of blood-thirsty mosquitoes looking to say grace over you whenever they can.
:(
I think there are some here and there but they're not common. It's just not warm enough for long enough for them hereabouts.
The pond is a wildlife pond - I want to encourage amphibians and they don't mix well with goldfish, which will nom the tapoles...
:D