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Veggie filter???
OK guys 'n galls, curiosity has got the better of me. What is a veggie
filter? I'll tell you what a tiddler is if you tell me what ones of these filter things is! A tiddler is a young fish, bigger than fry, say 1 to 3 inches long - a sort of young teenager - not out of high school yet. You know, wet around the ears. But what is a veggie filter? Is it something that they have in fish and chip shops to stop people eating having a good diet? - really is fish and chips only, no salad! |
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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 wrote in message news:41815d52@padme.... OK guys 'n galls, curiosity has got the better of me. What is a veggie filter? I'll tell you what a tiddler is if you tell me what ones of these filter things is! A tiddler is a young fish, bigger than fry, say 1 to 3 inches long - a sort of young teenager - not out of high school yet. You know, wet around the ears. But what is a veggie filter? Is it something that they have in fish and chip shops to stop people eating having a good diet? - really is fish and chips only, no salad! |
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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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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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