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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (7400)	3/4/2003 9:16:04 AM
From: Ish	Respond to of 34894

Our neighbor built her own water garden and it's a big one. She hired the hole hogged out and did the shaping with a shovel. Her husband ran the electric out for the pump. Intake on one end with a filter and a waterfall on the other connected with 3" PVC. You have a big advantage, you don't have to have rock and gravel shipped in from Wisconsin. Most of them in my area have 3 depths from an inch of water to 18" at the bottom to provide for a variety of plants. You may want a deeper middle as you have a longer winter. We use a little heater so the gases cane get through a hole in the ice as the plants decompose in the winter.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (7400)	3/4/2003 6:52:12 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34894

I'll try to give you more detail now. You dig out your garden and save the dirt. Dig it 30 or so inches deeper than you want it to be. Have a deeper trench down the middle and make some ledges along the sides. Also dig a hole at the intake end for the pump and strainer box. Most of the prettier plants only like to be in 6" of water. Look at catalogues, you can pick your plants. Now get rid of rocks or anything sharp that may puncture the liner. Add 2" of sand, lay in the liner. Make sure it goes clear to the ground around the garden. Then you put back about 18" of dirt, if you don't want any deeper water plants skip the deep area. Next you decide where you want to plant your plants and put 5 gallon buckets full of rocks and water there. Add about 2 to 4" of small rocks, the buckets will leave the dirt exposed for planting. Or you can do just a rock bottom and stick in potted plants (tacky). Set your waterfall box at the end opposite the intake and do the plumbing. The waterfall box will contain some bags of shredded plastic and that is where you grow the bacteria that keeps the water clear. What dirt you have left will make a mound around 3 sides of that box and you stack flat rocks in front of it for your waterfall. The water comes out the top of the front and splashes down the rocks. Fish choices are endless, but they do need a little shelter sunk in the deeper part. Many are sold, some people use milk carriers. Unexpected with ours, we got dragonflies out the yingyang. Watched them lay eggs and saw the nymphs emerge. They also are hell on mosquitoes. Watched toads lay strings of eggs and watched the little tadpoles by the thousands become toads and leave the pond. It's your own little ecosystem that nature takes advantage of. So will Kristy, you'll be driving 100 miles some weekend so she can buy the newest variety of Momo Boton.