If we want to enrich the garden arrangement with a small pond, in garden centers we will find a wide range of various plastic tanks.The ready-made bowl can be easily placed in the garden soil by hand.
1. Move the empty tank to a designated place and mark the size of the lowest part of the bottom with a sand border. Then, also with the sand line, we mark the dimensions of the upper edge of the trough.Use a spade to dig the soil to the required depth.
2. The bottom of the trench should be carefully shaped and leveled, removing stones and hard roots.
3. Before embedding the tank, cover the bottom and walls of the trench with a two-centimeter leveling layer of moist sand. It prevents the formation of voids by the walls of the basin and covers previously unnoticed pointed pebbles that can easily damage the water-laden shell.
Place the plastic bowl in the trench, check the level of the edge and slowly fill it with water. The water table should be level with the surrounding ground. A higher one could deform the edge of the tank.
4. Finally, we fill in the earth losses around the basin up to the edge level.The substrate is poured with a gentle stream of water and the surface is leveled if the soil has settled.
The edge of the reservoir is masked with flat stones. The finished pond can be planted with plants. Make sure that the planting depth corresponds to the depths of the plant shelves formed in the pond.
Coastline finish
Shaping the shoreline of a water reservoir is one of those tasks that requires patience and creativity. The trick is to combine the shoreline with the rest of the garden as harmoniously as possible.In this case, the use of appropriate materials and plants, which should be selected in accordance with the style of the garden, is essential.
Why is there less water
The pond may run out of water, although the ground is tight. This phenomenon is caused by capillary seepage, as a result of which water molecules slowly seep into further areas of the ground, if the pond is not sufficiently insulated from the surroundings. capillary).The best conductor of moisture is clay, the weakest - gravel and sand.
Natural gardens like planting from luxuriant plants. Gravel surfaces (made of gravel of various grains and colors), as well as rotten limbs and stumps are welcome.Formal-style water gardens are distinguished by their simplicity of forms and transparency.
Plants are usually planted in them point-wise and only where necessary.Instead of gravel, we can use tiles or natural stone cubes.For your own safety, we should avoid placing the thresholds around the pool protruding more than 5 cm above the ground. Finally, the edge can be reinforced with wooden logs, as long as they are not impregnated with highly concentrated chemicals.
We recommend, among others durable larch logs.If the edge of the mesh is strongly sloped, which may cause the ground to slide, plant the plants in burlap pockets attached to the ground with staples.
