Step by step guide to Making a pond, in Photos.
1.Buy/find a baby bath, washing up bowl or any plastic container big enough to make into a small pond.
2. Dig a hole big enough to fit the pond into.
3. Put the pond/plastic bath into the hole.
4. Put mud and stones around the 'pond', I also put some grass seed for long grass as frogs love the shade.
5. Fill with water.
6. Add pond weed.
7. Voila, you now have a pond.
After reading this article selfsufficientish bloke Ron Crisp e-mailed me this useful bit of knowledge that I had not thought of "you will need a means of escape for creatures like frogs which try to spend much of their time in the long grass you say will be grown, but frogs CAN'T scale smooth plastic bath sides.
SO, you MUST put in something that will 'bridge that gap' - and not rot while in the water - stones are generally good, or a sloping 'ramp' of something with a textured surface." - fair point Ron, he also added an important safety tip -see below.
SAFETY TIP
Use a piece of VERY STRONG MESH, e.g. the plastic-coated thick 'wire' four-inch squares stuff you see around park flowerbeds, flat on the surface and weighed down all around, perhaps by flat stones, so that a very small child/toddler falling face down can't drown in it. - thanks for that Ron.
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Photos and article by Andy Hamilton.
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