Remember that soil you excavated way back in step one and put it in a ring around the hole. Rake the excavated soil back toward the pond as backfill to cover up the liner that is showing above the ground. Gently grade it down and use it as a planting area.
Put dechlorinator in the water if you live where the water is chlorinated. Now you are ready for plants and fish.
How To Build a Pond: Landscaping
You may plant whatever you like around the pond. I use native plants as much as possible. I also try to use mounding plants so they will drape over the rocks and into the water. I like to have plants that creep around the rocks and partially cover them as the seasons pass. Soon your pond will look as if it has been there forever.
2 comments:
You mentioned cleaning filters in your post on August Ninth, yet I don't see where you used one in your pond contruction. Maybe it's going in later? Will you use a filter, and if so what type, and if not, how will you balance the ecosystem and keep the water clean?
I do not use filtration at all unless people feed their goldfish or have koi. If the ecosystem is balanced, that is, one bunch of submerged vegetation per square foot of pond surface and at least 1/2 the surface in the shade or shaded by floating plants, no filtration is needed this also assumes no turtles, no ducks, geese, crawfish or other eating/pooping critters. I do use a prefilter to keep debris out of the pump.
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