Blogspot - Interia Dezain

Welcome to part 2 in a series of posts covering the installation of small irrigation and wildlife ponds. Part one can be found  here  and covers planning and digging a pond. During this post we'll look at liner options and the steps you need to take to install a liner for your pond. Lining the pond in Ataraxia Pond Liner Options   The majority of ponds will need some kind of liner to hold water. For ponds in lowlands with a high water table on clay soils, or ponds where you have  a perennial source of water that can flow into and out of the pond, a liner is not at all necessary. For rain fed (either direct or via roof/land catchments) ponds and for ponds with an ephemeral source of input water,  in climates with long dry seasons, a liner will most likely be needed. In my experience sealed ponds are necessary in the following scenarios 1. the location is not a natural catchment, 2. you have no perennial water source to fill the pond 3. the soil you are excavating...

During this post we will be looking at various ways to prepare beds for planting, specifically for planting trees and shrubs. I'll introduce you to a trial we started this spring where we're looking at 5 different bed preparation methods to see which method works best. We'll go through how to implement each method, why they are useful and finally look at the criteria we are judging the effectiveness of each method by.  We'll start with an introduction to the trial garden where we are undertaking this comparative study. In April 2017 we began the development of our new trial garden ( Ataraxia ). The garden will be used for a range of  perennial polyculture trials  and experiments in order to discover the best practices to produce nutritious affordable food while enhancing biodiversity. Ataraxia - Balkan Ecology Project-  New Polyculture Trial Garden The first of our trials begins with the development of the planting zones. We want to discover what is the best method t...