There are many ways to bring water to our garden. Water features create a cheap microclimate, offer habitat for many useful animals and provide the roots of the surrounding trees and plants with water. And a natural pond outdoors is a great way to give your garden an exotic flair. There, water, soil, plants and animals live together in a harmonious balance. You can put on a natural pond in your own garden and effortlessly maintain it, because the required maintenance is minimal. Here you will find useful tips and instructions on how to do this task in the garden. Read on!
How big should the natural pond be in the garden
The size of your natural pond depends on your preferences, but if you want fish, you need a depth of at least 0.9 m so that you can hibernate well. A pond with many plants is worthwhile for the impressive view, so it would be good if you have a sufficient area.
How to choose the right location
A pond near a fence or shed is protected from the worst winter frost or the summer heat. But note that part of your natural pond is in the sun, so thatPlants thrive wellAnd animals can live in it. If you put on the pond near a building, you can also guide the rainwater via a drain pipe and fill the pond.
What you need for a natural pond
Here is everything you need for our natural pond in the garden. Let's get to work!
- A suitable piece of garden
- A wooden board
- Teichfolie
- A variety of pond plants
- some large rocks
- A water scale
- Bausand
- A good spade
- Water (preferably use rainwater)
If you want to properly create your natural pond, proceed as follows:
- First mark your pond with a rope or hose on the floor and then start digging! To ensure that the pages are flat, use a board across the hole and place a water scale on it. Make sure that you create a shape with many edges instead of smooth lines. Also lift deeper and flatter areas to create different microclimata and habitats for different plants and animals.
- As soon as you have excavated the hole, remove all sharp stones from the bottom of the hole. Then stamp the bottom of the pond with your feet to compact the upper layers of the earth and put on a 5 cm thick layer of sand.
- Carefully put the film in the hole and put the edge into the ditch; Complain with large stones. You can cut excess film with scissors.
- Fill the bottom of the pond with the remaining sand. Add larger stones, pipes, trunks, etc. to the floor to create a habitat for small fish and other animals that need protection against predators.
- If possible, fill your pond with the rainwater or with a hose from the tap.
- Fill the ditch around the pond edge with earth. As soon as you have filled the pond, put the exposed film on the edges of earth or stone slabs.
- When planting the pond? About 1-2 weeks after the first filling with waterCan you the plantsPlace in the pond. Carefully selected local species support the domestic wildlife.
- Place stones, trunks and plants on the edge of the pond to create habitats for animals that visit the pond. Think about whether you install a wooden offer or a similar ramp to help wild animals that could fall in. If you plan a slightly sloping beach area when you create your pond, you can make sure that wild animals find a simple way out.
- If the plants are well selected and the pond is kept in a relatively balanced ecological state, it should not need a lot of care. Dead organic fabrics and overgrown vegetation you can collect to keep the pond clean.
Which are the best plants for garden ponds
You can create and plant a natural pond and it is very simple if you z. B. embellish with these plants:
Lotus (Nelumbo sp.)
You can plant lotus in up to 1 m deep pots and let it bloom on a stem high above the water surface. This is a multi -year plant, the leaves of which reach a diameter of up to 51 cm and the stems are up to 3 m high.
Rohrkolben (Typha latifolia)
Grows on the edge of the pond, in damp soil or flat water. That isA useful plant, because the hollow stems transport oxygen into the root zone and fishing. It is also a multi -year plant that becomes up to 3 m high.
Swords (Iris Versicolor)
A beautiful plant with 5 cm wide flowers in blue or purple shades. The plant tolerates partial shade and is also several years of age; The leaves become up to 30 cm high.
If you want fish in the natural pond ...
If you want to create a garden pond and fish in it, these fish species are suitable:
Goldfish
Goldfish are extremely easy to care for and feed on plants, algae and larvae they find. They become about 10 years old and often up to approx. 30 cm long.
Koi
Koi often gets 40 years or more old and depending on the size of the pond up to one meter long. They have to be fed regularly; You can even train them to eat out of hand.
