subject: Preformed Garden Ponds - An Easy Way To Improve Your Garden's Decor [print this page] For anyone who wishes to bring more wildlife into their backyard or who would like to improve the decor of their garden one of the best and easiest things you can do is add a preformed garden pond.
You can find plenty of inexpensive kits which are also easy to relocate should it become necessary. Preformed garden ponds are created by using a composite material.
When you get ready to install your pond, the first thing you have to do is dig a hole where your pond will be and then you put your garden pond liner into the hole. Afterword, you will be able to decorate the pond by placing rocks, various kinds of plants, and maybe a log or two around the pond to give it a more natural appearance.
Anytime you install a preformed garden pump you also have to include a pump to circulate the water. For this reason, you may want to put your pond close to your house so you won't have to use as much wire. However, if you don't mind spending some extra money, you can place your pond wherever you like. Whenever you use electricity around water there is a chance of getting a shock, so I suggest you install a ground fault interrupter, or GFI, into the pump's circuitry.
You need to inspect your property for low areas to keep rainwater runoff from getting into your pond. The last thing you want to do is put your pond in a part of your garden which is lower than the rest. If you put your pond in a low lying spot, lawn chemicals, such as fertilizers, can be washed into your garden pond and contaminate it.
Try to avoid this whenever possible. If you plan out the location of your pond ahead of time, it can keep you from having to move it later on. Depending on where your plants are located in your garden, you may need to relocate some of them away from your pond. If you have large trees or if there are tree roots growing in the location of your pond you will probably have to move your pond somewhere else. If you don't want to put your pond somewhere else, you will have to cut the tree roots and then put something in place to prevent them from growing back. It is best to not cut the tree down because it will create some nice shade for your pond.
When you are ready to install the pond liner, just place it on the ground in the location where your pond will be. Get some wooden stakes and hammer them vertically into the ground around the outside of the liner. Take some string or rope and wrap it around the base of the stakes to form an outline of the liner.
When you've done that, take the pond liner and move it to side so it will be out of the way and start digging the hole for your pond. Make sure to keep the sides of the hole vertical. Now take your liner and place it in the hole.
Find a straight piece of wood and place it across the liner then, using a carpenter's level, check the level of the pond liner. Then turn the wood 90 degrees and check the level in the other direction.
Put sand into the hole under the liner and the sides of the liner and make sure you pack it in nice and tight. This will support the pond liner in the hole. When you are done packing the sand in, re-check the level of the pond in both directions to make sure it is still level.
When you are done with that you can start to decorate your new garden pond. You can plant some vegetation around it and place a few stones to give it a more natural appearance. An easy and inexpensive way to make preformed garden ponds look great at night is to use solar powered lights.
Since they are solar powered, there are no wires to hide and you can easily move them around the pond until you get it to look just right. The fact that they won't add to your electricity bill is a plus. Some people like to place a layer of pebbles in the bottom of their new pond to give it a more natural look.
Preformed Garden Ponds - An Easy Way To Improve Your Garden's Decor
