Garden pond

[drkelly]

Nice weather this morning. I started digging out for my garden pond.

Before (pictures taken May 2021):

Now:

 

[drkelly]

I'm going to get a load or three of sand rock to build up the low end.

 

[jovibuilt]

Bought a liner yet?

 

[UTfball68]

It’s the season I reckon…helping my brother put in a pond at his place too…should come in at an acre-ish. It’s an ‘irrigation pond’ for the ‘hay harvest’

 

[drkelly]

Bought a liner yet?

I haven't bought anything yet. I'm still researching everything. Do you have a pond? If so, got any tips and advice?

 

[jovibuilt]

I haven't bought anything yet. I'm still researching everything. Do you have a pond? If so, got any tips and advice?

I have 3 ponds. Tell me what kind of fish you want. Epdm liners are good but hdrpe are a lot tougher. A little harder to fold and cheaper. I have both and like hdrpe better. In the third picture you can see my bog filter. Second picture was when I was building the bog filter.

 

[jovibuilt]

Here is a good place to by hdrpe liners.

Pond liner shop tilapia geomembranes

HDRPE is used for ponds, lakes, golf courses, tanks, pools, environmental fills, concrete foundations, tarps, infrastructure and thousands of other uses.

americantilapia.com

 

[drkelly]

I have 3 ponds. Tell me what kind of fish you want. Epdm liners are good but hdrpe are a lot tougher. A little harder to fold and cheaper. I have both and like hdrpe better. In the third picture you can see my bog filter. Second picture was when I was building the bog filter.

I'm going to have questions, LOL!

 

[Loganwayne]

I haven't bought anything yet. I'm still researching everything. Do you have a pond? If so, got any tips and advice?

Our landscaper at work just ordered some liners for two ponds we have to redo. He said he was having a hard time getting any and ours had been on order 5 months.
Hopefully you’ll have better luck. He said smaller liners he could get no problem

 

[jovibuilt]

I have an extra 25 x 25 Epdm new.

 

[jovibuilt]

I'm going to have questions, LOL!

I will answer what I can.

 

[WARRIORWELDING]

I have 3 ponds. Tell me what kind of fish you want. Epdm liners are good but hdrpe are a lot tougher. A little harder to fold and cheaper. I have both and like hdrpe better. In the third picture you can see my bog filter. Second picture was when I was building the bog filter.

Very nice. I miss all my big koi. Something hunted them out. I found our last big boi down the hill. Eyes and head mostly gone. The rest left. I had some nice fish like yours.

 

[drkelly]

Our landscaper at work just ordered some liners for two ponds we have to redo. He said he was having a hard time getting any and ours had been on order 5 months.
Hopefully you’ll have better luck. He said smaller liners he could get no problem

I'm probably going to need about a 25x35 or maybe 30x35 liner. Maybe I should have done more research and started buying the supplies before I started digging. I hate hot weather though, so if I didn't start the digging now, then I would end up waiting until October.

 

[drkelly]

Very nice. I miss all my big koi. Something hunted them out. I found our last big boi down the hill. Eyes and head mostly gone. The rest left. I had some nice fish like yours.

I read that the first 'shelf' needs to be about 18-24" deep to prevent predators from getting the fish.

 

[WARRIORWELDING]

I read that the first 'shelf' needs to be about 18-24" deep to prevent predators from getting the fish.

And if you allow lilly pad plants to go to many years it fills up your deep hole.
I had not realized the evasive growth had taken away 90 percent of my deep habitat. My pond isn't huge but I muscled out two wheel barrow loads of just dense root matter.

 

[WARRIORWELDING]

Lilly plant was on top of this.

It consumed the entire end and grew though the opening. It would have all sorts of blooms and gave great water coverage.

I had to cut and chop it into sections. The weight and density was completely unexpected.

 

[jovibuilt]

I read that the first 'shelf' needs to be about 18-24" deep to prevent predators from getting the fish.

When I had shelf's I never could stop predators. I did away with my shelf's and only had a problem with a hawk once. I sent you a pm with some info and a link to a good information site.

 

[R Q]

I have built ponds in the past, WAY in the past! If your shelfs aren't virgin cuts, or are made of fill, they won't hold up. Koi are nice fish and will come up to who or whatever are at the sides to greet them, be it coons or whatever. Use some old tarps to determine what size liner you need. Make sure any run off water can't enter from the sides. Kids and non-conforming adults will walk in it when you least expect it.