Turning a Drainage Problem Into A Natural Pond: Part 2
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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Great work Greg. I am 66 and have ask myself, why am I doing this or is that. My answer always has been, I might learn something new. Hardly ever do I regret. All we can do is share our experience strength and Hope. I love actually love to be in my garden doing anything and everything and sometimes I just sit there and look and think.
70 and with you!
Excellent points sir :)
@@maritimegardening4887 you called me Sir....is it because I'm an "Ole man" @ 66. Most days I feel twenty...because I garden...great workout..aye!
Greg, we engage in these projects because there is a problem we must address and the solution to that problem is revealed to us. The interesting thing about human revelation is that we can only see the next step. We cannot see what happens five steps down the road. And, the bigger the next step the more difficult it is to see beyond it. The revelations are based upon our knowledge and effort. The harder you work and more knowledge you acquire the greater the revelation. This project began when you created your garden. You decided to add sand to your garden walkways, which was a good idea. The sand changed the balance and flow of your garden. The sand flows like and along with the water. Water is analogous to chaos. You are now trying to reestablish balance in your garden. Yours is a unique and personalized solution to this problem. Please continue to listen to your revelations and acting on them. It’s not a coincidence that your spiritual philosophy and revelations are colliding with your gardening. Please share as much as you feel comfortable sharing. You have a great understanding of nature and gardening, so your revelations are going to be complex and difficult. Take on the responsibility even when it is difficult. It is your destiny.
Will destiny prevail? 😉
Thanks that's very nice of you to say. I'll try to do that :)
I was a plumber and often had to dig trenches as an apprentice. That wasn't my favourite task, but I had a way to make it more fun. I thought about how much fun it would be to dig at the beach, building a moat around a sand castle. So I tried to think of each of those days as a day at the beach.
Great attitude to take :)
That giant rock is a prize. Garden statuary. Maybe the kids could decorate it?
His children r teenagers.
My daughter is 11 - and she is very artistic - so that's not a bad idea
I’ve been looking for a how to video on how to turn my drainage problem into a wildlife pond in my garden without bells and whistles, pumps and liners, and finally stumbled onto this! Thank you so much! I love your honest, down to earth style. Very much appreciated!
You are very welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
Just have to say, 69 female here. Love gardening and definitely feel the effects from gardening on my body. So the solution is work for a few hours fighting with buried concrete then rest for a day, back for a few hours and so on. Enjoy we’re videos Thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊
Well said!
I do all tasks in little bits. It’s amazing how those little bits add up. And I too have learned over the years to listen when some body part starts telling me I should quit for the day…took more years to learn that than I care to admit. And on occasion, I ignore the warnings…and usually pay for it.
I think you'll be super happy with the completed project, Greg...it will be lovely! Japanese iris and corkscrew grass would be nice along the sides.
Good ideas
Greg that might be a tree root, what we did home was just saw it off, you have a trimming saw, NO??
I like to use a reciprocating saw for stuff like that
@@phyconinga I agree on the reciprocating saw but I'm pretty sure Greg don't have a reciprocating saw but I did see him use a tree saw for trim work.
Getting in the dirt with a saw is really bad for the blade
I have one - but I'm too cheap to sacrifice a blade for that log. I ended up using a fire axe that I keep for just such occasions
@@maritimegardening4887 OH yea I remember the fire axe now lol lol
Thank you for this video! First for the part of tackling an overwhelming project. The added inspiration is always needed. I didn’t do much in my garden today. Just to check on how things are, encourage my asparagus & take some measurements of pots.
Second for sharing your initial thoughts about how your gardening contributes to your well-being. Your comments are so thoughtful & on track. I’m a Social Worker, so your comments definitely resonated for me!
I wonder if it might helpful for that video to ask for thoughts from your subscribers- how does their garden or the act of gardening contribute to their well being? Then you could summarize what was shared & your thoughts related to it. By doing that you are emphasizing their story & your own. By promoting stories, then you are not positioning yourself as an expert, which I hear your concern about that.
Another thought: could you incorporate thoughts about well being in small snippets throughout videos, instead of one video on the topic. Just some thoughts of how to tackle such a meaningful topic.
Thanks Laura that's good advice
Great work on the pond. I would caution you against using chicken wire and concrete, just because chicken wire is galvanized, and the zinc could poison the fish. Similarly, concrete could raise the alkalinity of the pond to potentially lethal levels (at least in aquariums it can do that). But great work, garden is looking great
If he goes with concrete, he can leave it 4 this year b4 adding fish. He can add water and flush it out a few times. I waited a yr b4 adding fish and they survived.
I am also 49 and also dug a pond this year!
I'm working on a similar project here. It seems like the last few years the ground has not drained well and in the early spring I feel as though we are sinking. I started last year with re-working where our sump drains so it pours into a tiny pond which is the bottom of a barrel sunk in the ground. That overflows into a small bog garden. Amazingly some goldfish survived the winter in there. Now I'm creative a swale to catch the water from a downspount to route around the little bog area and take any over flow towards a perrenial bed in hope it will no longer puddle on the lawn. It looks pretty silly so far, and it is a muddy horrible job. But I think we just need to get a vision of what it can look like when it is done. I have to pace myself, so there's lots of time to design as I go.
You're not too old for that! We need to live while we are here, so shape that land. I love your pond project. The soreness will lessen, those muscles are just out of tune:)
So true!
lol,I know the feeling "Why did I start this project" but when finished your glad that it was done!
Hi Greg. Wish I cld chat with ya as I was watching you.
I was so excited when u showed part one and thought, God, why isn't he making it bigger?
Now yr thinking about it.
Yes, yes, yes. Take part of that keyhole one and make it nicer.
Hey Greg great progress! How did you deal with that log???
I feel your pain though...this past weekend helped my daughter and son in law move concrete from a patio and steps we broke up with a jackhammer. We loaded all the rubble into a dumpster and the dump weight came back as 22,000 pounds of concrete rubble! And then there was the 9 x 9 concrete papers (400 or so of them...on my trailer) and a big load of field stone. So by Sunday night I was feeling my age for sure...but the complaining at the dinner table! I think I am in better shape than my kids! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
All in good fun..😁
Thanks for the video and that pond is going to be awesome - and yes it should be bigger!
Mike 🇨🇦 🍁 👍
I have a "fire axe" that I use for dirty jobs like that. I just went at it like a maniac & cut it though. After that I got a rope around each end and used a lever to get it out. The whole thing was about 6' long - almost perfectly centered across the pond :)
A bigger pond, asparagus, a tree... - careful Greg, you could accidently tumble into Zen! Next you will need a red bridge.
I'll take all the Zen I can get :)
It’s so beautiful where you live in amongst those pine forest.🦘🐨🦘I like your garden bed area also.😃
It really is!
"why did i start this.." that's hillarious. i just finished a mobile chicken coop with pallet wood that got out of hand. now i'm building a mobile chicken run that's getting out of hand... so i don't know why either.
I understand younfeeling crazy for starting the pond priject, but I can just feel how happy you are going to be with it for years to come.
You'all rocks are so beautiful some are round and other places are flat, I would love to have a little pond in my garden but I don't like frogs lol I have the right spot for it to, I would just enjoy you and others build there's
U don't like frogs? May i ask why?
Have you considered bentonite clay instead of concrete for lining your pond? It seems a simpler and more natural solution than concrete. Concrete is so permanent. Since clay is applied in powder form, it's probably easier on the back as well.
I already bought the concrete
This is reminding me of the work by the Paani Foundation (look them up, super cool!) where they dug areas to catch rainwater run off and just hold it in the area to then be slowly released over time. It really improved their agricultural efforts to have that slow-release water coming through the soil from their ponds. I'm also having issues, the water runs across the yard and is carrying away the topsoil and I'm trying to figure out what to do about it, but my soil is heavy clay and I'm probably less fit than you are, it would be a lot of effort to dig trenches, tho maybe I could rent something gas-powered to use...
A suggestion - hire a high school student - preferably an athlete - to do the digging. Pay them $15 an hour. You will be amazed at how much gets done in one day :) Way cheaper than a rental - and they get to learn about gardening.
Hi , thanks for the videos. Looks like you decided to live with the tree in your pond. I was going to suggest renting a stump chipper. Definitely an unwanted expense but maybe better than ten years of living with a pond you would have liked different.
I got it out with a log of elbow grease
Kinda like the old addige "how do you do this?it's like eating an elephant,one bite at a time",eventually it's done!😁 Right? So that snowfall was kinda like a teacher. I've always been told that a pond will seal naturally,however, "wash-in" has to be considered. Anyhow,after it's all done, you can bask in the satisfaction of knowing YOU accomplished your goal!!!👍🤠
Greg slow and easy gets the work done. I am 78 and have Fibromyalgia which give me chronic pain and have learned to go slow and easy and when it starts to hurt I stop. It will get done but not as quickly as when I was 40.
That's a good way to look at it :)
Hello Greg. in the past video, I recommended to you to watch The weedy garden chapter on 30 April 2021 and 31 July 2021. Geoff Lawton explained how to prepare swales. Thanks. See you
Wow, u got quite alot done last weekend. It takes time moving gravel and redistributing yr soil.
As 4 holding water. Yes, it may work but will always be lower in summer which is what I have. High in winter and slowly goes down in summer.
I'd suggest not adding fish this year.
If you don't add the fish you get algae and mosquitoes
Your making me laugh out loud with ya when u were saying... What am. I doing? Lol I was waiting 4 that.
Heck I'm impressed with what yr doing.
As 4 cementing in rocks. Great idea. I will pm you because that's what I did. But I waited till summer when it dried up. Yes, it's hot and hard work but worth it! I was 10 yrs younger than u r now but yr a strong big guy with way more muscle. I had my Dad help me but mostly mixing cement. I placed all the rock. And if i had 2 do it over.... I'd even gone abit bigger.
Now, I've got 2 finish watching yr video. Put it on pause when yr lamenting about what u got yrself into. 😁🤭😉☺️
Can you send me pics of you pond with the pm?
Greg I'm also trying to figure out a drainage/flooding prob!em. Any opinions suggestions on dry creek beds when it's not melting March season? What about a shallow dry creek bed between the big pond and little pond? Yes! Brother the aging 50 yo body is frustrating BS!
I'm not sure what you're asking me - sorry
When thinking about that second pond next to the bench, would it be worth while to dig it as a well, instead? A narrow cistern?
Well - the current pond is going to act like a well anyway. Digging a well is harder in my opinion.
Can you put a link to Part 1 in the description?
There's a link at the end of the video - but here : ua-cam.com/video/rcWejXQ59S4/v-deo.html
saw log off...
If you use a saw in the dirt like that it will be completely dull when you're done.