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« Reply #17340 on: March 11, 2012, 05:32:42 PM » |
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Ok, as a reminder THE BEFORES | Click to see full-size image. |
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« Reply #17341 on: March 11, 2012, 05:34:18 PM » |
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« Reply #17342 on: March 11, 2012, 05:35:09 PM » |
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now time to give thoughts to landscaping, planting and generally improving
These pics will follow (that might be some time away!)
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« Reply #17343 on: March 11, 2012, 06:15:41 PM » |
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It looks better already Guy.
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« Reply #17344 on: March 11, 2012, 06:29:55 PM » |
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A couple of questions for you Tom. A while ago you were looking for a reasonable place to buy turf. Where did you end up getting it?
Also - any clue where's the best place to rent a rototiller/cultivator thingy?
A landscaper gave us a price for doing the back garden last week. He's hoping we'll fund his drug habit. Only explanation for the insane price he quoted. Imma do it meself now.
Dawn you want a powered wheel rotavator, not a cultivator. (Cultivators are like little mechanical chickens scratching about) Any decent tool-hire place will have one. It should. look something like this. | Click to see full-size image. |
 Turf - Theres a company down by Fosse Park Asda who are OK I think they're called Greenacres. Note - Cheap meadow-turf or something with a bit of rye grass in it will be gust as good as the expensive stuff and it will be harder wearing. Don't worry too much about laying it, Just cut it roughly to size and throw it down and keep it well watered for a few weeks.. Grass is the most successful plant on earth, it will grow anywhere. |
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« Reply #17345 on: March 11, 2012, 07:35:40 PM » |
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Was out in the garden today as well. Pond has an infestation of blanket weed, so I was treating that and cleaning the filter and pump.
We got some fish for the pond last year:
3 x comets
2 x goldfish
6 x orfes
Over the winter the fish virtually hibernate at the bottom of the pond, so you can't see them. With us being pond noobs, and after the visits from the heron, we were wondering how many of the fish are still alive in the pond, as we'd only seen two of the comets.
It must be well and truly spring today, and the sun on the pond must have stirred the fish from their slumber (that and me banging about). Saw all the comets and the goldfish and a couple of the orfes. The orfes are the smallest of the fish we got, and we were most worried about them surviving the winter/heron. So we're happy to see a couple of them swimming around, and hopefully we'll see the others soon as well. The fish were all feeding today, which was also good to see after their slumber over the winter (when they hardly eat at all).
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« Reply #17346 on: March 11, 2012, 07:40:36 PM » |
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Put a fake heron next to pond
And or net over plus few bits tin foil on bamboo poles as bird scarers
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« Reply #17347 on: March 11, 2012, 07:50:08 PM » |
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I could take you to a couple of tiny, garden-pond sized natural pond that have been there since time began, but if you try to put one where nature didn't intend one to be they are really difficult to sustain.
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« Reply #17348 on: March 11, 2012, 07:51:18 PM » |
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Put a fake heron next to pond
And or net over plus few bits tin foil on bamboo poles as bird scarers
Imagine being a fish and having to look at a fake heron all day.  |
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« Reply #17349 on: March 11, 2012, 07:52:51 PM » |
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Put a fake heron next to pond
And or net over plus few bits tin foil on bamboo poles as bird scarers
I've managed to rig up a deterrent, and since then (fingers crossed) the heron seems to have lost interest and hasn't been back. |
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« Reply #17350 on: March 11, 2012, 08:11:01 PM » |
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From a fishes point of view it's better to look at a heron from the outside than the inside
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« Reply #17351 on: March 11, 2012, 08:39:47 PM » |
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A non-gardener writes: Thing with herons is they can't land on water, they can only wade in. So if you guard the edge of the pond they won't be able to eat the fish.
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« Reply #17352 on: March 11, 2012, 09:04:08 PM » |
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Lesser redpoll news please, Tom.
Really intrigued.
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« Reply #17353 on: March 11, 2012, 09:22:35 PM » |
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A non-gardener writes: Thing with herons is they can't land on water, they can only wade in. So if you guard the edge of the pond they won't be able to eat the fish.
That's what I've done with a setup of metal flower stakes and fishing line. It's functional and yet virtually invisible to the naked eye, so doesn't spoil the look of the pond. |
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« Reply #17354 on: March 11, 2012, 10:08:51 PM » |
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Put a fake heron next to pond
And or net over plus few bits tin foil on bamboo poles as bird scarers
I've managed to rig up a deterrent, and since then (fingers crossed) the heron seems to have lost interest and hasn't been back. Is the heron-deterrent a cardboard cutout of tikay with a camera? |
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