If you’re looking for a unique feature and aren’t worried about maintenance issues or cost, you might want to consider creating your own garden pond. Depending on the surface area that the pond takes up, this type of feature can look incredibly impressive. It can also be perfect if you want to add some life to your garden as you can use a pond like this for fish. So, how do you get started with this idea?

Choose The Right Spot

The first step is always going to be choosing where to build your new pond. There are a few considerations that you need to keep in mind here. The first is warmth. You should ideally build your pond in the sunniest spot of your garden. If you do this, then you will find a great level of creatures are interested in making it their home. So, if you are keen to make sure that you introduce a lot more life into your garden, then this is definitely the way to do it.

You should also think about tree covering. If there are trees around the area where the pond is going to be this will mean that the water will be in the shade a lot of the time. But there’s another problem and that’s leaves dropping through the later months of the year. If you want to avoid extra maintenance keep your pond away from trees completely.

Digging

Next it’s time to start bringing the pond to life. To do this, you need to dig. You’ll probably find that you’ll need to hire a mini digger if you don’t want this job to take weeks off your time. It’s important that the pond is at least a few feet deep. It should be about three feet at the deepest point. You also need to make sure that it has a shallow climb so that different creatures and climb in and out. As well as this, do make sure that the pond has different levels and layers too. This will ensure that it is suitable for a variety of different creatures.

Pond Liner

Next, it’s time to add the pond liner. You can find these from any local home depot store. Before you lay down the liner, do make sure that the ground underneath is free from any sharp rocks or edges. This could damage it leading to leaks and you don’t want that. Once you have done this, you can use a hose to steadily fill it with water. As it fills to make sure that you push the edges into different cracks to fill all possible areas. You should also avoid creases where possible and you can use rocks to keep the material in place.

Now that you have material, you can start adding texture to the pond. Do make sure that if you are adding rocks, that they are suitable for fish and other creatures. Kelkay pebbles look fantastic and are suitable for fish so you should consider investing in some coastal pebbles. These can be used as a boarder for the pond as well as the bottom of the pond itself.

Using this advice you’ll have a great pond set up as part of your garden in no time.