Water always soothingly affects the person. And in combination with ornamental plants and with flowers even the small reservoir can decorate your garden. To create cozy corner where will be to have a good time, it can do to many gardeners, it is only worth wanting.
It is required to you
- - watering hose;
- - shovel;
- - level;
- - PVC or butylrubber film;
- - stones;
- - saplings of plants.
Instruction
1. Before starting creation of pond on the site, think what size and form you would like to see it. Consider that care for big reservoir will be quite difficult and physical costs of its device it will be required much.
2. By means of normal garden hose plan contours of future pond. Try several options and choose the best of them.
3. Dig out shovel soil on necessary depth if future reservoir of the small size, otherwise use the help of the excavator. Normal depth of pond is 1-1.2 meters. Slopes do at an angle 45 degrees. Provide possibility of drain of water because during heavy rains water can come out edges.
4. The ditch can be made multilevel, having provided platforms for landing of water plants.
5. That will provide water tightness, cover bottom and slopes butylrubber or polyvinyl black film. In position of joints stick together it special adhesive tape.
6. Use of synthetic rubber, but as speak, penny-wise and pound-foolish will be more expensive. This covering is durable. Producers guarantee that it will serve to you belief and the truth of 20 years. But at good leaving its life cycle much longer.
7. Press film on edge stones or bricks. However you should not use stones with sharp edges as they can damage film. Pebble best of all will be suitable for this purpose.
8. Fill reservoir with water. Within week periodically check whether water flows from it if everything is all right, then water can be not drained.
9. On bottom install containers with plants, for example, nimfey or reed-mace. Thus, behind them will look after, transfer more simply to storage in the winter. Lay out coast and sides of pond stone, plant flowers and ornamental plants.
10. In order that water in pond was clear, install modern cleaning systems or use natural way – start in pond of small fishes or lodge in it snails.