Edging the pond: must it be rocks?
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Comments (3)You can use them around your pond, just cure your rocks in a tub of water and change it periodically and you'll be fine, I'd cure it for at least 1 week, up to a month.I think your thin rocks will be okay, I'd add some fibre in there for additional strength, you could also use some admix instead of water for additional strength. Cindy...See Moresafe grass/weed control at pond edge
Comments (8)I recently heard a negative article on glyophosphate, which is the active ingredient in roundup and those type products. Apparently research has shown that it lasts longer than advertised in soils and affects organisms of many types. There might even have been something about ground water contamination. Search on glyophosphate and see what you get. Though I will still use these products on occasion, it will be very limited, and NOT around the pond. Hand pulling after rain, weed barriers, mulches, and careful plant selection of as many natives as possible are my preferred methods of weed control. Please use any chemicals according to label directions and heed cautions. Use them sparingly, and be aware of not only where you are putting it, but also where it will end up. Thanks! -TT...See MoreNatural pond edges?
Comments (18)Hi Schmily, My lab loves the water so I knew it would be a chore keeping him out of the pond, so I designed it to let him wade in. I've got a beach area and sloped the pond depth from 0 to about 18 inches over a 12 foot span before dropping off to 5' so he can get in and out easily (he's getting old). I covered the liner with an inch or so of mortar and embedded stones and pea gravel, it gives him (and me) a non slippery surface to walk on, the mortar doesn't allow debris to build up like plain gravel would, and the light surface gives me a nice koi-viewing area. My lab will wade in chest deep and slurp koi pellets nose-to-nose with the fish. Mortar isn't a huge project, it's just heavy to carry. Let it cure for a week or so and rinse it off well before adding water. I waited a couple of months after that before adding fish, I wanted to make sure the ph wasn't affected. It wasn't. You can add plants anytime. The ground slopes where my pond is so my edges aren't level. On two sides there is as much as a 6 inch drop to the water level-the exposed liner was ugly. I've used blue rug junipers and trailing ground covers to soften the rock I use around the edges and hide the liner. The best I've found was a flowering hanging basket "giant snowflake" tight small green leaves and small white flowers. I got the baskets (2-about $25) at costco and divided the plants up and planted them along one edge. They grew like gangbusters and trailed over the edge completely covering the liner. The koi keep them trimmed at the water line. Alas, they are an annual here so I have to replace them each spring and live with seeing the liner until they fill in. I'm getting tired of that and will find a perennial to take it's place. Good Luck with your pond! [IMG]http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/3220/beachzk8.jpg[/IMG] Ok, I obviously don't know how to post a picture here, but if you copy and paste the url into your browser you can see the area I'm talking about. Here is a link that might be useful: Come Join Pond Chat!...See MoreDwarf iris for bog/pond edge? Or other dwarf plants?
Comments (2)There is a dwarf water iris but I do not know if plants of it are available. But you might want to consider various species of Acorus. Check locally or at native plant nurseries online....See Moreshakaho
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