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...

We've done a couple of pond installations recently, one for our new perennial polyculture trial garden (Ataraxia) and another for Catherine Zanev's  permaculture farm/orchard. Wildlife ponds in our gardens I thought I'd write a post to share our experience and provide an overview of our pond design and installation process. In this post we'll look at locating a pond, pond design and pond digging and in part two I'll write about lining and part three planting and landscaping the pond. Introduction  In both the recent ponds we dug we hired a machine and driver to carry out the dig. Previous ponds we've dug by hand. With some willing help a 6 x 4 x 1.5 m pond is very do-able and I'd estimate that  3-4 people with good tools would take about 8- 10 hrs on moderately light soils, probably longer in clay. The Pond in the Paulownia Garden - dug by hands  The recent ponds we made required 3 and 4 m depths and were larger in surface area so we opted for machines. For...