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Thanks Nedra. Curiouser and curiouser. So you have a another sort of
'logoon' area that the main pond water is pumped into. You put some plants in it and this loggon area clears the water in the main pond. Hmmmm. Interesting. If I have described it acurrately, I have one of those by accident. Due to the configuration of my garden, as you see from my pix, it lends itself to having waterfalls. The lower part of the garden is still under construction after working on it all year, but that is what you get when you buy an unloved old English Dorset cottage. Everything needs rebuilding after 200 years, apart from the walls of the cottage. All the stone work in the waterfalls pix I have built this summer. For some strange reason I didn't have the waterfall running when I took the picture. Strange but true. So its my top pond that will have good water cleaning properties. The gravelled intermediate area is completely waterlogged. the idea was to grow marginals, those plant that like wet toes by a dry body. My tree fern absolutely loves this treatment, it has never been better and grown so well. What plants would be recommended for my set up? I have put a few roots of watercress in the waterrun a few months ago, and since then my wife and I have had a few salads garnished with the home grown crop. Fireball "Nedra" wrote in message nk.net... Okay, sit back and just read A veggie filter is separate 'pond' buillt adjacent to the main pond. You build it so that it is about 10 - 15% of the surface of your pond. For instance, my veggie filter is 4' by 8' ... which is a little more than the surface area of my pond. Volume doesn't count here! I dug mine to about 18" deep then lined it with regular pond liner. I used landscape timbers which turned out to be the easiest for me to measure. Build it like the Lincoln Logs ... Then I nailed 1 x 6"s around the top to hold the liner down. My son built a manifold to go on the bottom of the VF .... it is made of PVC with lots of holes drilled all around. Next you want to get a pump (mine's a 500 gph) for that will allow "dwell time" ... that is slow enough for the water to dwell in the Veggie Filter ;-) I put the pump on the opposite side of the pond - attached a black hose that extends all the way over to the VF .... up the sides and over the top. I attached this end of the hose to a manifold that sits on the bottom of the VF. Turn on the pump and let it fill. I start my VF in early Spring;... i.e. March in Missouri. I have water iris that are several years old ... and really need to be divided. Also Taro and lots of Water Hyacinths. The roots of these plants filter the water - you will be surprised at how quickly your pond will clear. That's it from me. I know lots of others have built their own veggie filters and besides I've probably forgotten something or other ---- Good Luck! Nedra in Missouri |
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Thanks Nedra. Curiouser and curiouser. So you have a another sort of
'logoon' area that the main pond water is pumped into. You put some plants in it and this loggon area clears the water in the main pond. Hmmmm. Interesting. If I have described it acurrately, I have one of those by accident. Due to the configuration of my garden, as you see from my pix, it lends itself to having waterfalls. The lower part of the garden is still under construction after working on it all year, but that is what you get when you buy an unloved old English Dorset cottage. Everything needs rebuilding after 200 years, apart from the walls of the cottage. All the stone work in the waterfalls pix I have built this summer. For some strange reason I didn't have the waterfall running when I took the picture. Strange but true. So its my top pond that will have good water cleaning properties. The gravelled intermediate area is completely waterlogged. the idea was to grow marginals, those plant that like wet toes by a dry body. My tree fern absolutely loves this treatment, it has never been better and grown so well. What plants would be recommended for my set up? I have put a few roots of watercress in the waterrun a few months ago, and since then my wife and I have had a few salads garnished with the home grown crop. Fireball "Nedra" wrote in message nk.net... Okay, sit back and just read A veggie filter is separate 'pond' buillt adjacent to the main pond. You build it so that it is about 10 - 15% of the surface of your pond. For instance, my veggie filter is 4' by 8' ... which is a little more than the surface area of my pond. Volume doesn't count here! I dug mine to about 18" deep then lined it with regular pond liner. I used landscape timbers which turned out to be the easiest for me to measure. Build it like the Lincoln Logs ... Then I nailed 1 x 6"s around the top to hold the liner down. My son built a manifold to go on the bottom of the VF .... it is made of PVC with lots of holes drilled all around. Next you want to get a pump (mine's a 500 gph) for that will allow "dwell time" ... that is slow enough for the water to dwell in the Veggie Filter ;-) I put the pump on the opposite side of the pond - attached a black hose that extends all the way over to the VF .... up the sides and over the top. I attached this end of the hose to a manifold that sits on the bottom of the VF. Turn on the pump and let it fill. I start my VF in early Spring;... i.e. March in Missouri. I have water iris that are several years old ... and really need to be divided. Also Taro and lots of Water Hyacinths. The roots of these plants filter the water - you will be surprised at how quickly your pond will clear. That's it from me. I know lots of others have built their own veggie filters and besides I've probably forgotten something or other ---- Good Luck! Nedra in Missouri |
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Thanks Nedra. Curiouser and curiouser. So you have a another sort of
'logoon' area that the main pond water is pumped into. You put some plants in it and this loggon area clears the water in the main pond. Hmmmm. Interesting. If I have described it acurrately, I have one of those by accident. Due to the configuration of my garden, as you see from my pix, it lends itself to having waterfalls. The lower part of the garden is still under construction after working on it all year, but that is what you get when you buy an unloved old English Dorset cottage. Everything needs rebuilding after 200 years, apart from the walls of the cottage. All the stone work in the waterfalls pix I have built this summer. For some strange reason I didn't have the waterfall running when I took the picture. Strange but true. So its my top pond that will have good water cleaning properties. The gravelled intermediate area is completely waterlogged. the idea was to grow marginals, those plant that like wet toes by a dry body. My tree fern absolutely loves this treatment, it has never been better and grown so well. What plants would be recommended for my set up? I have put a few roots of watercress in the waterrun a few months ago, and since then my wife and I have had a few salads garnished with the home grown crop. Fireball "Nedra" wrote in message nk.net... Okay, sit back and just read A veggie filter is separate 'pond' buillt adjacent to the main pond. You build it so that it is about 10 - 15% of the surface of your pond. For instance, my veggie filter is 4' by 8' ... which is a little more than the surface area of my pond. Volume doesn't count here! I dug mine to about 18" deep then lined it with regular pond liner. I used landscape timbers which turned out to be the easiest for me to measure. Build it like the Lincoln Logs ... Then I nailed 1 x 6"s around the top to hold the liner down. My son built a manifold to go on the bottom of the VF .... it is made of PVC with lots of holes drilled all around. Next you want to get a pump (mine's a 500 gph) for that will allow "dwell time" ... that is slow enough for the water to dwell in the Veggie Filter ;-) I put the pump on the opposite side of the pond - attached a black hose that extends all the way over to the VF .... up the sides and over the top. I attached this end of the hose to a manifold that sits on the bottom of the VF. Turn on the pump and let it fill. I start my VF in early Spring;... i.e. March in Missouri. I have water iris that are several years old ... and really need to be divided. Also Taro and lots of Water Hyacinths. The roots of these plants filter the water - you will be surprised at how quickly your pond will clear. That's it from me. I know lots of others have built their own veggie filters and besides I've probably forgotten something or other ---- Good Luck! Nedra in Missouri |
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Thanks Nedra. Curiouser and curiouser. So you have a another sort of
'logoon' area that the main pond water is pumped into. You put some plants in it and this loggon area clears the water in the main pond. Hmmmm. Interesting. If I have described it acurrately, I have one of those by accident. Due to the configuration of my garden, as you see from my pix, it lends itself to having waterfalls. The lower part of the garden is still under construction after working on it all year, but that is what you get when you buy an unloved old English Dorset cottage. Everything needs rebuilding after 200 years, apart from the walls of the cottage. All the stone work in the waterfalls pix I have built this summer. For some strange reason I didn't have the waterfall running when I took the picture. Strange but true. So its my top pond that will have good water cleaning properties. The gravelled intermediate area is completely waterlogged. the idea was to grow marginals, those plant that like wet toes by a dry body. My tree fern absolutely loves this treatment, it has never been better and grown so well. What plants would be recommended for my set up? I have put a few roots of watercress in the waterrun a few months ago, and since then my wife and I have had a few salads garnished with the home grown crop. Fireball "Nedra" wrote in message nk.net... Okay, sit back and just read A veggie filter is separate 'pond' buillt adjacent to the main pond. You build it so that it is about 10 - 15% of the surface of your pond. For instance, my veggie filter is 4' by 8' ... which is a little more than the surface area of my pond. Volume doesn't count here! I dug mine to about 18" deep then lined it with regular pond liner. I used landscape timbers which turned out to be the easiest for me to measure. Build it like the Lincoln Logs ... Then I nailed 1 x 6"s around the top to hold the liner down. My son built a manifold to go on the bottom of the VF .... it is made of PVC with lots of holes drilled all around. Next you want to get a pump (mine's a 500 gph) for that will allow "dwell time" ... that is slow enough for the water to dwell in the Veggie Filter ;-) I put the pump on the opposite side of the pond - attached a black hose that extends all the way over to the VF .... up the sides and over the top. I attached this end of the hose to a manifold that sits on the bottom of the VF. Turn on the pump and let it fill. I start my VF in early Spring;... i.e. March in Missouri. I have water iris that are several years old ... and really need to be divided. Also Taro and lots of Water Hyacinths. The roots of these plants filter the water - you will be surprised at how quickly your pond will clear. That's it from me. I know lots of others have built their own veggie filters and besides I've probably forgotten something or other ---- Good Luck! Nedra in Missouri |
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Thanks Nedra. Curiouser and curiouser. So you have a another sort of
'logoon' area that the main pond water is pumped into. You put some plants in it and this loggon area clears the water in the main pond. Hmmmm. Interesting. If I have described it acurrately, I have one of those by accident. Due to the configuration of my garden, as you see from my pix, it lends itself to having waterfalls. The lower part of the garden is still under construction after working on it all year, but that is what you get when you buy an unloved old English Dorset cottage. Everything needs rebuilding after 200 years, apart from the walls of the cottage. All the stone work in the waterfalls pix I have built this summer. For some strange reason I didn't have the waterfall running when I took the picture. Strange but true. So its my top pond that will have good water cleaning properties. The gravelled intermediate area is completely waterlogged. the idea was to grow marginals, those plant that like wet toes by a dry body. My tree fern absolutely loves this treatment, it has never been better and grown so well. What plants would be recommended for my set up? I have put a few roots of watercress in the waterrun a few months ago, and since then my wife and I have had a few salads garnished with the home grown crop. Fireball "Nedra" wrote in message nk.net... Okay, sit back and just read A veggie filter is separate 'pond' buillt adjacent to the main pond. You build it so that it is about 10 - 15% of the surface of your pond. For instance, my veggie filter is 4' by 8' ... which is a little more than the surface area of my pond. Volume doesn't count here! I dug mine to about 18" deep then lined it with regular pond liner. I used landscape timbers which turned out to be the easiest for me to measure. Build it like the Lincoln Logs ... Then I nailed 1 x 6"s around the top to hold the liner down. My son built a manifold to go on the bottom of the VF .... it is made of PVC with lots of holes drilled all around. Next you want to get a pump (mine's a 500 gph) for that will allow "dwell time" ... that is slow enough for the water to dwell in the Veggie Filter ;-) I put the pump on the opposite side of the pond - attached a black hose that extends all the way over to the VF .... up the sides and over the top. I attached this end of the hose to a manifold that sits on the bottom of the VF. Turn on the pump and let it fill. I start my VF in early Spring;... i.e. March in Missouri. I have water iris that are several years old ... and really need to be divided. Also Taro and lots of Water Hyacinths. The roots of these plants filter the water - you will be surprised at how quickly your pond will clear. That's it from me. I know lots of others have built their own veggie filters and besides I've probably forgotten something or other ---- Good Luck! Nedra in Missouri |
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Thanks Nedra. Curiouser and curiouser. So you have a another sort of
'logoon' area that the main pond water is pumped into. You put some plants in it and this loggon area clears the water in the main pond. Hmmmm. Interesting. If I have described it acurrately, I have one of those by accident. Due to the configuration of my garden, as you see from my pix, it lends itself to having waterfalls. The lower part of the garden is still under construction after working on it all year, but that is what you get when you buy an unloved old English Dorset cottage. Everything needs rebuilding after 200 years, apart from the walls of the cottage. All the stone work in the waterfalls pix I have built this summer. For some strange reason I didn't have the waterfall running when I took the picture. Strange but true. So its my top pond that will have good water cleaning properties. The gravelled intermediate area is completely waterlogged. the idea was to grow marginals, those plant that like wet toes by a dry body. My tree fern absolutely loves this treatment, it has never been better and grown so well. What plants would be recommended for my set up? I have put a few roots of watercress in the waterrun a few months ago, and since then my wife and I have had a few salads garnished with the home grown crop. Fireball "Nedra" wrote in message nk.net... Okay, sit back and just read A veggie filter is separate 'pond' buillt adjacent to the main pond. You build it so that it is about 10 - 15% of the surface of your pond. For instance, my veggie filter is 4' by 8' ... which is a little more than the surface area of my pond. Volume doesn't count here! I dug mine to about 18" deep then lined it with regular pond liner. I used landscape timbers which turned out to be the easiest for me to measure. Build it like the Lincoln Logs ... Then I nailed 1 x 6"s around the top to hold the liner down. My son built a manifold to go on the bottom of the VF .... it is made of PVC with lots of holes drilled all around. Next you want to get a pump (mine's a 500 gph) for that will allow "dwell time" ... that is slow enough for the water to dwell in the Veggie Filter ;-) I put the pump on the opposite side of the pond - attached a black hose that extends all the way over to the VF .... up the sides and over the top. I attached this end of the hose to a manifold that sits on the bottom of the VF. Turn on the pump and let it fill. I start my VF in early Spring;... i.e. March in Missouri. I have water iris that are several years old ... and really need to be divided. Also Taro and lots of Water Hyacinths. The roots of these plants filter the water - you will be surprised at how quickly your pond will clear. That's it from me. I know lots of others have built their own veggie filters and besides I've probably forgotten something or other ---- Good Luck! Nedra in Missouri |
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Thanks Nedra. Curiouser and curiouser. So you have a another sort of
'logoon' area that the main pond water is pumped into. You put some plants in it and this loggon area clears the water in the main pond. Hmmmm. Interesting. If I have described it acurrately, I have one of those by accident. Due to the configuration of my garden, as you see from my pix, it lends itself to having waterfalls. The lower part of the garden is still under construction after working on it all year, but that is what you get when you buy an unloved old English Dorset cottage. Everything needs rebuilding after 200 years, apart from the walls of the cottage. All the stone work in the waterfalls pix I have built this summer. For some strange reason I didn't have the waterfall running when I took the picture. Strange but true. So its my top pond that will have good water cleaning properties. The gravelled intermediate area is completely waterlogged. the idea was to grow marginals, those plant that like wet toes by a dry body. My tree fern absolutely loves this treatment, it has never been better and grown so well. What plants would be recommended for my set up? I have put a few roots of watercress in the waterrun a few months ago, and since then my wife and I have had a few salads garnished with the home grown crop. Fireball "Nedra" wrote in message nk.net... Okay, sit back and just read A veggie filter is separate 'pond' buillt adjacent to the main pond. You build it so that it is about 10 - 15% of the surface of your pond. For instance, my veggie filter is 4' by 8' ... which is a little more than the surface area of my pond. Volume doesn't count here! I dug mine to about 18" deep then lined it with regular pond liner. I used landscape timbers which turned out to be the easiest for me to measure. Build it like the Lincoln Logs ... Then I nailed 1 x 6"s around the top to hold the liner down. My son built a manifold to go on the bottom of the VF .... it is made of PVC with lots of holes drilled all around. Next you want to get a pump (mine's a 500 gph) for that will allow "dwell time" ... that is slow enough for the water to dwell in the Veggie Filter ;-) I put the pump on the opposite side of the pond - attached a black hose that extends all the way over to the VF .... up the sides and over the top. I attached this end of the hose to a manifold that sits on the bottom of the VF. Turn on the pump and let it fill. I start my VF in early Spring;... i.e. March in Missouri. I have water iris that are several years old ... and really need to be divided. Also Taro and lots of Water Hyacinths. The roots of these plants filter the water - you will be surprised at how quickly your pond will clear. That's it from me. I know lots of others have built their own veggie filters and besides I've probably forgotten something or other ---- Good Luck! Nedra in Missouri |
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On or about Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:52:55 +0100,
wrote something like: OK guys 'n galls, curiosity has got the better of me. As you seem new to usenet, let me point out that binaries are not apropriate in a text based group. It takes more time than other may want to spend. If your pictures are of real interest to the group you can post them at a website or an online photo album. Thanks for your understanding. -- Crashj |
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On or about Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:52:55 +0100,
wrote something like: OK guys 'n galls, curiosity has got the better of me. As you seem new to usenet, let me point out that binaries are not apropriate in a text based group. It takes more time than other may want to spend. If your pictures are of real interest to the group you can post them at a website or an online photo album. Thanks for your understanding. -- Crashj |
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Wow! What a lovely garden you all have, Fireball. I noticed the pond area
is under construction. I think alot of us in the States could love to have your problem of fixing up an English Dorset cottage.... sigh You do seem to have the idea of a veggie filter. I would really like to see you sign up for Free Web space. Then you could post lots of your pictures - especially interesting would be pictures of your progress with the construction. Please let us know your website address. Just post it beneath your name ..... Like this Freebie I have: Nedra http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118 wrote in message news:418294e3@padme.... Thanks Nedra. Curiouser and curiouser. So you have a another sort of 'logoon' area that the main pond water is pumped into. You put some plants in it and this loggon area clears the water in the main pond. Hmmmm. Interesting. If I have described it acurrately, I have one of those by accident. Due to the configuration of my garden, as you see from my pix, it lends itself to having waterfalls. The lower part of the garden is still under construction after working on it all year, but that is what you get when you buy an unloved old English Dorset cottage. Everything needs rebuilding after 200 years, apart from the walls of the cottage. All the stone work in the waterfalls pix I have built this summer. For some strange reason I didn't have the waterfall running when I took the picture. Strange but true. So its my top pond that will have good water cleaning properties. The gravelled intermediate area is completely waterlogged. the idea was to grow marginals, those plant that like wet toes by a dry body. My tree fern absolutely loves this treatment, it has never been better and grown so well. What plants would be recommended for my set up? I have put a few roots of watercress in the waterrun a few months ago, and since then my wife and I have had a few salads garnished with the home grown crop. Fireball "Nedra" wrote in message nk.net... Okay, sit back and just read A veggie filter is separate 'pond' buillt adjacent to the main pond. You build it so that it is about 10 - 15% of the surface of your pond. For instance, my veggie filter is 4' by 8' ... which is a little more than the surface area of my pond. Volume doesn't count here! I dug mine to about 18" deep then lined it with regular pond liner. I used landscape timbers which turned out to be the easiest for me to measure. Build it like the Lincoln Logs ... Then I nailed 1 x 6"s around the top to hold the liner down. My son built a manifold to go on the bottom of the VF .... it is made of PVC with lots of holes drilled all around. Next you want to get a pump (mine's a 500 gph) for that will allow "dwell time" ... that is slow enough for the water to dwell in the Veggie Filter ;-) I put the pump on the opposite side of the pond - attached a black hose that extends all the way over to the VF .... up the sides and over the top. I attached this end of the hose to a manifold that sits on the bottom of the VF. Turn on the pump and let it fill. I start my VF in early Spring;... i.e. March in Missouri. I have water iris that are several years old ... and really need to be divided. Also Taro and lots of Water Hyacinths. The roots of these plants filter the water - you will be surprised at how quickly your pond will clear. That's it from me. I know lots of others have built their own veggie filters and besides I've probably forgotten something or other ---- Good Luck! Nedra in Missouri |
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Wow! What a lovely garden you all have, Fireball. I noticed the pond area
is under construction. I think alot of us in the States could love to have your problem of fixing up an English Dorset cottage.... sigh You do seem to have the idea of a veggie filter. I would really like to see you sign up for Free Web space. Then you could post lots of your pictures - especially interesting would be pictures of your progress with the construction. Please let us know your website address. Just post it beneath your name ..... Like this Freebie I have: Nedra http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118 wrote in message news:418294e3@padme.... Thanks Nedra. Curiouser and curiouser. So you have a another sort of 'logoon' area that the main pond water is pumped into. You put some plants in it and this loggon area clears the water in the main pond. Hmmmm. Interesting. If I have described it acurrately, I have one of those by accident. Due to the configuration of my garden, as you see from my pix, it lends itself to having waterfalls. The lower part of the garden is still under construction after working on it all year, but that is what you get when you buy an unloved old English Dorset cottage. Everything needs rebuilding after 200 years, apart from the walls of the cottage. All the stone work in the waterfalls pix I have built this summer. For some strange reason I didn't have the waterfall running when I took the picture. Strange but true. So its my top pond that will have good water cleaning properties. The gravelled intermediate area is completely waterlogged. the idea was to grow marginals, those plant that like wet toes by a dry body. My tree fern absolutely loves this treatment, it has never been better and grown so well. What plants would be recommended for my set up? I have put a few roots of watercress in the waterrun a few months ago, and since then my wife and I have had a few salads garnished with the home grown crop. Fireball "Nedra" wrote in message nk.net... Okay, sit back and just read A veggie filter is separate 'pond' buillt adjacent to the main pond. You build it so that it is about 10 - 15% of the surface of your pond. For instance, my veggie filter is 4' by 8' ... which is a little more than the surface area of my pond. Volume doesn't count here! I dug mine to about 18" deep then lined it with regular pond liner. I used landscape timbers which turned out to be the easiest for me to measure. Build it like the Lincoln Logs ... Then I nailed 1 x 6"s around the top to hold the liner down. My son built a manifold to go on the bottom of the VF .... it is made of PVC with lots of holes drilled all around. Next you want to get a pump (mine's a 500 gph) for that will allow "dwell time" ... that is slow enough for the water to dwell in the Veggie Filter ;-) I put the pump on the opposite side of the pond - attached a black hose that extends all the way over to the VF .... up the sides and over the top. I attached this end of the hose to a manifold that sits on the bottom of the VF. Turn on the pump and let it fill. I start my VF in early Spring;... i.e. March in Missouri. I have water iris that are several years old ... and really need to be divided. Also Taro and lots of Water Hyacinths. The roots of these plants filter the water - you will be surprised at how quickly your pond will clear. That's it from me. I know lots of others have built their own veggie filters and besides I've probably forgotten something or other ---- Good Luck! Nedra in Missouri |
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Thanks for your appreciation. I have been living and working on my house for
10 years now, and I reckon another 5 years to go. Yes, a nice Dorset cottage to work on is a nice dream, but 15 years of hard work is tunrs a sigh in to ugggh. but I take it steady, make it a hobby and don't let it make it a master. Why 15 years? - cause I haven't got $150,000 to pay someone to do it for me, and I like creating things by myself with my own hands. It took me 3 months to dig out the 2000 gallon pond - 3 years ago now. "Nedra" wrote in message ink.net... Wow! What a lovely garden you all have, Fireball. I noticed the pond area is under construction. I think alot of us in the States could love to have your problem of fixing up an English Dorset cottage.... sigh You do seem to have the idea of a veggie filter. I would really like to see you sign up for Free Web space. Then you could post lots of your pictures - especially interesting would be pictures of your progress with the construction. Please let us know your website address. Just post it beneath your name .... Like this Freebie I have: Nedra http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118 wrote in message news:418294e3@padme.... Thanks Nedra. Curiouser and curiouser. So you have a another sort of 'logoon' area that the main pond water is pumped into. You put some plants in it and this loggon area clears the water in the main pond. Hmmmm. Interesting. If I have described it acurrately, I have one of those by accident. Due to the configuration of my garden, as you see from my pix, it lends itself to having waterfalls. The lower part of the garden is still under construction after working on it all year, but that is what you get when you buy an unloved old English Dorset cottage. Everything needs rebuilding after 200 years, apart from the walls of the cottage. All the stone work in the waterfalls pix I have built this summer. For some strange reason I didn't have the waterfall running when I took the picture. Strange but true. So its my top pond that will have good water cleaning properties. The gravelled intermediate area is completely waterlogged. the idea was to grow marginals, those plant that like wet toes by a dry body. My tree fern absolutely loves this treatment, it has never been better and grown so well. What plants would be recommended for my set up? I have put a few roots of watercress in the waterrun a few months ago, and since then my wife and I have had a few salads garnished with the home grown crop. Fireball "Nedra" wrote in message nk.net... Okay, sit back and just read A veggie filter is separate 'pond' buillt adjacent to the main pond. You build it so that it is about 10 - 15% of the surface of your pond. For instance, my veggie filter is 4' by 8' ... which is a little more than the surface area of my pond. Volume doesn't count here! I dug mine to about 18" deep then lined it with regular pond liner. I used landscape timbers which turned out to be the easiest for me to measure. Build it like the Lincoln Logs ... Then I nailed 1 x 6"s around the top to hold the liner down. My son built a manifold to go on the bottom of the VF .... it is made of PVC with lots of holes drilled all around. Next you want to get a pump (mine's a 500 gph) for that will allow "dwell time" ... that is slow enough for the water to dwell in the Veggie Filter ;-) I put the pump on the opposite side of the pond - attached a black hose that extends all the way over to the VF .... up the sides and over the top. I attached this end of the hose to a manifold that sits on the bottom of the VF. Turn on the pump and let it fill. I start my VF in early Spring;... i.e. March in Missouri. I have water iris that are several years old ... and really need to be divided. Also Taro and lots of Water Hyacinths. The roots of these plants filter the water - you will be surprised at how quickly your pond will clear. That's it from me. I know lots of others have built their own veggie filters and besides I've probably forgotten something or other ---- Good Luck! Nedra in Missouri |
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Sorry about that. I had no idea about such protocol, although I did wonder
why people spent ages trying to describe a problem, sometimes clumsily, rather than taking a picture for us all to see and learn from. So why don't we open a news group especially for questions with pictures? I don't think that webpages stuffed full of pix of which one fish with floppy yellow poker dotted fins and nearly dead - or indeed even a dead fish, is at all a good idea. Much better to attach a pix to the question - surely? Fireball "Crashj" wrote in message ... On or about Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:52:55 +0100, wrote something like: OK guys 'n galls, curiosity has got the better of me. As you seem new to usenet, let me point out that binaries are not apropriate in a text based group. It takes more time than other may want to spend. If your pictures are of real interest to the group you can post them at a website or an online photo album. Thanks for your understanding. -- Crashj |
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On or about Mon, 1 Nov 2004 19:13:13 -0000,
wrote something like: Thanks for your appreciation. Fireball, it is perfectly acceptable to trim your posts to leave just a hint of what your reply is about. You seem new to usenet? Perhaps a vist to http://www.albion.com/netiquette/ is in order. I was directed there early on by a considerate stranger. Posting on the bottom is preferred, [although admittedly, not the norm here] A cute signature at the end helps us get to know you . . . -- Crashj |
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On or about Mon, 1 Nov 2004 19:13:13 -0000,
wrote something like: Thanks for your appreciation. Fireball, it is perfectly acceptable to trim your posts to leave just a hint of what your reply is about. You seem new to usenet? Perhaps a vist to http://www.albion.com/netiquette/ is in order. I was directed there early on by a considerate stranger. Posting on the bottom is preferred, [although admittedly, not the norm here] A cute signature at the end helps us get to know you . . . -- Crashj |
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