On Apr 21, 10:06*am, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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On Apr 21, 8:56 am, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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I'm far from being well-versed about the various kinds of landscape
fabric,
but last time I inquired about them at a local Agway store, I believe the
guy told me that some of these products allow less water to pass through
than others. If that's true, I wonder if you could use such a fabric
underneath two feet of soil to slow down, but not stop water flow
completely. Obviously, you'd have some backbreaking work ahead of you to
install it, though.

Pond liner doesn't seem like a good idea.

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I was thinking about severly slowing down the flow and amending the
soil. *In conjunction with raised beds, that should help. *But I
thought if I would use raised beds (and by raised, I mean RAISED!
Like maybe 18-24 inches high) that a pond liner would work sort of
like a huge self-wtering container. *Maybe I could prick some very
small holes in it to let it drain. *I also thought if I dug down
enough and lipped the liner up the sides of the hle only so far, that
the excess water would drain out. *I may be entirely wrong!

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Either way, it's an interesting experiment. I guess it depends on how much
muscle you want to put into it, maybe twice. You might want to check into
landscape fabric prices to see if my defective memory (above) might be
correct, and if it's cheaper than pond liner. Incidentally, pond liner is
really useful stuff to have around the house for other projects. Padding
removable roof racks so they don't scratch the car, making non-skid pads for
tackle boxes so they don't slide around a boat, etc....

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I don't want to kill myself but I still want to give it a try. I'm
not "too old" to do all the digging........yet.

I was going to build some raised beds like this: www.gardenstogro.com.
They cost WAY too much but it needs to be cheaper to build myself.

I figure the amount of soil that is above the underground pond would
be sufficent to keep the roots from rotting in water.