Solution for hiding liner
 

Hi.
I'm normally just a lurker here, but I finally found the answer to my
problem of ugly liner showing (between the water line and the rock
edging) and thought I'd share. I don't want to sound like I'm spamming
or anything, though.... I have no affiliation with the company I bought
it from, so if you want to know where I got it, feel free to send me an
e-mail. The product is called "Edge It" - a sort of "grow bag" for
pond plants. It's a fabric(?)tube of rot and puncture free material
with an attached flap. You fill the tube with soil (or with some plants
you wouldn't even need soil), then place at the edge of your pond with
the flap on the ground held in place by your rock edging. Cut little
crosses in the tube and plant your plants. The tube will be in contact
with the pond water so the soil and plant roots are moist at all times.


After years of trying all kinds of clever and creative tricks to hide
that ugly liner (including plastic plants) I've finally got it, and am
very grateful! Hope this helps someone else, too, because I'm sure
I'm not the only one who has that exposed liner above the water line.

Sue

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Hi.
I'm normally just a lurker here, but I finally found the answer to my
problem of ugly liner showing (between the water line and the rock
edging) and thought I'd share. I don't want to sound like I'm spamming
or anything, though.... I have no affiliation with the company I bought
it from, so if you want to know where I got it, feel free to send me an
e-mail. The product is called "Edge It" - a sort of "grow bag" for
pond plants. It's a fabric(?)tube of rot and puncture free material
with an attached flap. You fill the tube with soil (or with some plants
you wouldn't even need soil), then place at the edge of your pond with
the flap on the ground held in place by your rock edging. Cut little
crosses in the tube and plant your plants. The tube will be in contact
with the pond water so the soil and plant roots are moist at all times.


After years of trying all kinds of clever and creative tricks to hide
that ugly liner (including plastic plants) I've finally got it, and am
very grateful! Hope this helps someone else, too, because I'm sure
I'm not the only one who has that exposed liner above the water line.

That's a great idea! I'll bet you could easily do something like that with
burplap, or other materials...


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I don't suppose you'd have a link to that product would you?

Googling gets tons and tons of computer/IT related sites, and none of
my efforts to refine the search seem to help.

TIA
Mike

On 18 Apr 2005 17:03:47 -0700, "Sue777" wrote:

Hi.
I'm normally just a lurker here, but I finally found the answer to my
problem of ugly liner showing (between the water line and the rock
edging) and thought I'd share. I don't want to sound like I'm spamming
or anything, though.... I have no affiliation with the company I bought
it from, so if you want to know where I got it, feel free to send me an
e-mail. The product is called "Edge It" - a sort of "grow bag" for
pond plants. It's a fabric(?)tube of rot and puncture free material
with an attached flap. You fill the tube with soil (or with some plants
you wouldn't even need soil), then place at the edge of your pond with
the flap on the ground held in place by your rock edging. Cut little
crosses in the tube and plant your plants. The tube will be in contact
with the pond water so the soil and plant roots are moist at all times.


After years of trying all kinds of clever and creative tricks to hide
that ugly liner (including plastic plants) I've finally got it, and am
very grateful! Hope this helps someone else, too, because I'm sure
I'm not the only one who has that exposed liner above the water line.

Sue

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"Mike Patterson" wrote in message
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I don't suppose you'd have a link to that product would you?

Googling gets tons and tons of computer/IT related sites, and none of
my efforts to refine the search seem to help.

Google "Edge-It pond"

6th link... ;)

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Thank you very much !!

Although in hindsight the best way to hide the lines is to make sure the
pond is perfectly level all around and then put rocks past the inside
edge and fill to the top.

I did say hindsight though ????

Sue777 wrote:
Hi.
I'm normally just a lurker here, but I finally found the answer to my
problem of ugly liner showing (between the water line and the rock
edging) and thought I'd share. I don't want to sound like I'm spamming
or anything, though.... I have no affiliation with the company I bought
it from, so if you want to know where I got it, feel free to send me an
e-mail. The product is called "Edge It" - a sort of "grow bag" for
pond plants. It's a fabric(?)tube of rot and puncture free material
with an attached flap. You fill the tube with soil (or with some plants
you wouldn't even need soil), then place at the edge of your pond with
the flap on the ground held in place by your rock edging. Cut little
crosses in the tube and plant your plants. The tube will be in contact
with the pond water so the soil and plant roots are moist at all times.


After years of trying all kinds of clever and creative tricks to hide
that ugly liner (including plastic plants) I've finally got it, and am
very grateful! Hope this helps someone else, too, because I'm sure
I'm not the only one who has that exposed liner above the water line.

Sue

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Thank you very much !!

Although in hindsight the best way to hide the lines is to make sure the
pond is perfectly level all around and then put rocks past the inside edge
and fill to the top.

I did say hindsight though ????

Yeah, RIGHT! My pond is on our yard, which is on a mountain, and if you saw
the rocks we pulled out by hand when we dug it our, you wouldn't believe
some of them!

Because of the slope, we can't even get any dirt delivered even close, so I
end up moving it either by renting a min track hoe, or with a small trailer
pulled by the riding lawn mower.

Leveling is a PITA here...


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The way I hid the liner is to build a "rock shelf". It was about 4"
lower than the top of the pond. I put the big moss rock boulders on the
shelf and filled the pond so that the rocks were part submerged in the
water. On the top of the pond, I covered the liner with smaller rocks.

Works great. I only see liner when the water gets WAY too low.

-ikiru

*enjoy the sauce*

Have any pics?
Kirsten
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The way I hid the liner is to build a "rock shelf". It was about 4"
lower than the top of the pond. I put the big moss rock boulders on the
shelf and filled the pond so that the rocks were part submerged in the
water. On the top of the pond, I covered the liner with smaller rocks.

Works great. I only see liner when the water gets WAY too low.

-ikiru

*enjoy the sauce*

Sue777 wrote:
Hi.
I'm normally just a lurker here, but I finally found the answer to my
problem of ugly liner showing (between the water line and the rock
edging) and thought I'd share. I don't want to sound like I'm
spamming or anything, though.... I have no affiliation with the
company I bought it from, so if you want to know where I got it, feel
free to send me an e-mail. The product is called "Edge It" - a sort
of "grow bag" for pond plants. It's a fabric(?)tube of rot and
puncture free material with an attached flap. You fill the tube with
soil (or with some plants you wouldn't even need soil), then place at
the edge of your pond with the flap on the ground held in place by
your rock edging. Cut little crosses in the tube and plant your
plants. The tube will be in contact with the pond water so the soil
and plant roots are moist at all times.


After years of trying all kinds of clever and creative tricks to hide
that ugly liner (including plastic plants) I've finally got it, and am
very grateful! Hope this helps someone else, too, because I'm sure
I'm not the only one who has that exposed liner above the water line.

Sue
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Do you have more details?

Hi. Sorry - I would have posted the link but I thought that was
considered spamming and wasn't allowed. Glad some of you managed to
find it. Don't be scared off by the fact that the store is located in
the UK..... Harry just figures out the cheapest way to get it to the
states (he even removes all unnecessary packaging/cardboard) and then
has you order a couple of cheap plumbing parts to cover the cost of
shipping. (you don't actually receive the couplings - that's just a
convenient way to pay the postage).

Anyway, it's a great product, and I'm surprised I couldn't find
anything like that in the states. At least not YET.

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:39:44 -0400, "Gareee©"
wrote:

"Mike Patterson" wrote in message
.. .
I don't suppose you'd have a link to that product would you?

Googling gets tons and tons of computer/IT related sites, and none of
my efforts to refine the search seem to help.

Google "Edge-It pond"

6th link... ;)

aaaagh!

have no idea how I missed that, but here's the link for anyone else
who may be interested:

http://www.herrigan.com/productlist.asp?catID=9

Unfortunately for me, they're in the UK and I haven't been there in
about 4 years...

Anyone who thinks I'm spamming because I posted a link in a ponding
newsgroup to a product of interest to ponders is cordially invited to
visit my pond and perform a visual inspection of the rocks on the
bottom. But you'll need to do it from a distance of less than 6 inches
because that's about the visibility right now. I'll hold your beer
while you do so.

Mike
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Sue, when you have this set up I'd like to see what it looks like
installed. ~ jan

On 18 Apr 2005 17:03:47 -0700, "Sue777" wrote:

Hi.
I'm normally just a lurker here, but I finally found the answer to my
problem of ugly liner showing (between the water line and the rock
edging) and thought I'd share. I don't want to sound like I'm spamming
or anything, though.... I have no affiliation with the company I bought
it from, so if you want to know where I got it, feel free to send me an
e-mail. The product is called "Edge It" - a sort of "grow bag" for
pond plants. It's a fabric(?)tube of rot and puncture free material
with an attached flap. You fill the tube with soil (or with some plants
you wouldn't even need soil), then place at the edge of your pond with
the flap on the ground held in place by your rock edging. Cut little
crosses in the tube and plant your plants. The tube will be in contact
with the pond water so the soil and plant roots are moist at all times.


After years of trying all kinds of clever and creative tricks to hide
that ugly liner (including plastic plants) I've finally got it, and am
very grateful! Hope this helps someone else, too, because I'm sure
I'm not the only one who has that exposed liner above the water line.

Sue

~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:22:12 -0700, ~ jan JJsPond.us
wrote:


On 18 Apr 2005 17:03:47 -0700, "Sue777" wrote:

Hi.
I'm normally just a lurker here, but I finally found the answer to my
problem of ugly liner showing (between the water line and the rock
edging) and thought I'd share. I don't want to sound like I'm spamming
or anything, though.... I have no affiliation with the company I bought
it from, so if you want to know where I got it, feel free to send me an
e-mail. The product is called "Edge It" - a sort of "grow bag" for
pond plants. It's a fabric(?)tube of rot and puncture free material
with an attached flap. You fill the tube with soil (or with some plants
you wouldn't even need soil), then place at the edge of your pond with
the flap on the ground held in place by your rock edging. Cut little
crosses in the tube and plant your plants. The tube will be in contact
with the pond water so the soil and plant roots are moist at all times.


After years of trying all kinds of clever and creative tricks to hide
that ugly liner (including plastic plants) I've finally got it, and am
very grateful! Hope this helps someone else, too, because I'm sure
I'm not the only one who has that exposed liner above the water line.

Where does one purchase this clever solution?

John

Hi, John.... sorry for the delay in responding.... have had computer
problems. The link is

http://www.herrigan.com/productlist.asp?catID=9

and the shipping is very reasonable even though it's coming from the
UK. I think it cost me less than $5 if I recall.

And yes, Jan, I'll take pix when I have it in place, but it's supposed
to rain all weekend I think. :(

"Sue777" wrote in message
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Hi, John.... sorry for the delay in responding.... have had computer
problems. The link is

http://www.herrigan.com/productlist.asp?catID=9

and the shipping is very reasonable even though it's coming from the
UK. I think it cost me less than $5 if I recall.

Yeah but after looking at the dollar/pound exchange rate, and a 12x12 pond,
I'm looking at a total cost of 172 and change not counting shipping. (And I
doubt he's going to charge the same amount for shipping 12 of them as
opposed to shipping only one.

That's getting kind of expensive...

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