So much has happened in the gardens, Yes I said gardenS. This all started with one little project to clean up that back yard and now it's become a beautiful monster. I'm up to 6 wonderful gardens now, and I've named them. The Patio Garden. The Crystal Garden, The Dog Run Kitchen Garden, The Alley Garden, The Rose Garden and the Prairie Garden.
It looks like we'll be starting a new major construction. My husband has decided that we will be needing more water so he's researching digging a pond. We have loads of water all winter, in fact in some places it's knee deep but come spring it all rolls off the land the ground cracks and we become semi-arid. We have water storage tanks and a non-potable well. August and September are pretty dry months for us. We've used all the water in the tanks and the well is dry. So we have resorted to using expensive domestic water. We've decided on the location for the pond. I was very concerned about the problem of mosquitoes, but fish in the pond will alleviate that problem I was also concerned about over saturation of the soils near the pond so we included a liner in the design it will also stop water loss through leaking and deter those nasty Nutria from digging holes in the pond walls. We've decided on a location that is naturally low and holds water until very late in the spring. It's close enough to the house and barns that it will be affordable to run power and water lines to it. Right now we are considering about a 100,000 gallon pond. I'm trying to convince my DH that we should dedicate an area of the pond to growing filtering plants so we can also swim in the pond. He is such an urbanite and the thought of swimming in a pond does not excite him at all. I grew up taking dips in those irrigation and stock ponds, in my mind as long as there's no algae growing on it, a cool dip is a cool dip, besides when we have scalding temps we both grab a glass of wine and escape to the horse trough.
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