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Once upon a time when land was cheap (yes ... that is how old I am), I bought land in the form of a big V. At the bottom of the V, there were wild plants, raspberries and a big hole. Sometime this is going to be a pond I said. The main reason to have a pond was to collect water. In my home town it rains 700mm (27.5") per year which is not much, and water is expensive to use it to grow tomatoes. So whatever rain water I could get, the more things I could grow. |
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| But ... once I had the pond, a friend came and told me he had an old water deposit with 40 colored fishes. Could he give them to me since he did not want them to be thrown away? But ... what is a pond with fish and no plants??? The pond profile is like a slow sloping V, so it was difficult to plant anything since I could not hold any earth. So I put in some stones to make it somehow flatter and protected. | ||
| Every time it rained too much the pond overflowed so I had to protect the fish. I got tired of collecting them from the road ... not a very good place for fish. Once I convinced the fish not to go to that corner (I am very convincing ... well, the ones that were not convinced are not there anymore) I could begin with the plant situation. |
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| It required only small fixing. Once you get the idea, you just follow it. You can see two levels of earth inside the pond for different plants. The hole at the far end is the entrance of the rain water collected. | ||
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brings all the water collected  |
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