Our Pond #1: From a speck of water to...

I’m glad our little fountain could be put to such good use. So what’s the status of your pond?

-- Former plant killer. Current plant damager.

the pond is now “un-pond-ed”.

The fish our inside in a large rubbermaid container. (Couldn’t afford a fishtank.) I did buy them a filter though and along with some of the floating plants I hope they remain healthy all winter.

Some of the large plants are also inside, sitting in your fountain container. They look healthy so far. (the main plant mass must have weighed 100 pounds – it took everything I had to roll it out of the pond and into the container.)

And outside, there are 2 big holes. Hopefully we will create a 4’ deep pond next spring so the fish can remain outside all year.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Neat project….Ummm In the background there are a set of white steps…Do they lead to anything or are they MIL stairs :)

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

the steps in the centre of the pix are for my clothesline.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Hey Debbie,

I get an error loading the video…file not found.

-- Alberta, Canada - Hardiness Zone: 3A

well.. shoot… oh yah.. I think I deleted a bunch of files that I had sent my son… oops!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

I’ll be interested in seeing how the pond turns out. We would like to put one in sometime as well but we don’t have money for anything fancy. My landlady’s mother whom I do work for has three ponds with goldfish and I noticed there were no pumps or moving water so I asked her about them and she said the fish would do just fine which surprised me although I know goldfish are a tough breed. Her ponds are fairly shallow and so far they seem to be doing ok. Let us know how things turn out.

-- gardening in extreme northern CA. zone 7 in the beautiful Siskiyou mountains

HI DEBBIE IS YOUR CLOTHES LINE TOO HIGH ? OR ARE YOU VERTICALLY CHALLENGED ?, I THOUGHT THE STEPS WERE WHERE YOU MOUNTED YOUR HORSE.
LOVELY COMMENTRY AND THE SOUND OF RUNNING WATER MAKES ME WANT TO GO FOR A PEE BUT NO PICTURE BUT I IMAGINED A LOT. I DID GET A MESSAGE THE FREE VERSION OF NERO HAS EXPIRED THIS MAY BE THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM . LOVELY TO HEAR YOUR COMMENTARY BUT I COULD DO WITHOUT THE RUNNING WATER SOUND HAVING JUST RETURNED FROM MY LOCAL HOSTELRY .
REGARDS MIKE

-- MIKE MILTON COMMON U.K.

clothesline is high AND I’m vertically challenged :)

running water – I think that is how Mother’s train their little boys to go pee and thus the “running water” problem in later years :)

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

O I loved you pond Ms Deb

That was a great video

I could running water. so nice

I filled in my swimming pool 3 summers ago. I coudn’t look after it myself any more so made a nice garden are from it but kept the concret patio areas and walks all around and put pather through the garden

I posted a pic a while back

It not warm enough here yet to enjoy the yard as you are

So tip one back and enjoy and have one for me too

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

Beautiful and very tranquil.

-- horsetail, Fergus, Ontario

thanks :)
it looks so different this year already … but I do like the quaint little pond that it was in its beginnings. Right now it is still waiting for plants. But I can be patient! Really!! Honest~

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

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