JohnC
Member
Hi,
So, my parents recently moved house to north of Aberdeen as they reason they have 10 years of legs left in them to do up another house.
They now have this lovely homestead in farmland quite near to where donald trump is going to build his mega golf resort.
In the grounds of this house is a pond which has been somewhat neglected over the last few years at least which they have yet to have a go at since there are a load more pressing issues for them to see too. But now i'm house sitting for the next three weeks i've started casing my eye over it as a project, at least to get them on the right track.
The pond is 8m long, 3m wide at one end, 4m at the other. The deepest area is about a metre which represents about a third of the area, the rest is about half a metre with a small ledge of about 10 cm depth.
It is heavily planted but very overgrown and i've not got a clue on how to progress with any clearance or cleaning to get it ready for summer. I suspect there is an issue with too much fast growning weed like stuff. I'll annotate the pic's to show.
There seems to be some previous plumbing but no pump or filter present. There is a bank of plugs next to the pond with a switch in the shed labelled "Pump Switch", ive also seen a pond vac manual, but no hardware in the sheds or garage.
There is also a large corrigated pond pipe arcing around from a small depression next to the power, dug into the ridge around one side of the pond which outputs in the shallow end on the ledge, nothing attached to either end.
As far as i can tell there are no fish present, unless they are exceedingly good at hiding in the overgrown pond, plus have ninja heron avoiding skills and could survive with total neglect for 12 months with about a month totally frozen over.
But we have tappoles. 😀
From the house view, shallow ledge nearest
Back at the house, deep end nearest
Under the slab are 3 plug sockets. You can see the pond piping ending here also in a small depression
End of the pond pipe, the wetness here is probably because this depression is below the water line
The ledge is in the upper left part of the pond here. The other end of the pipe comes out at the stones in the water
Frog Spawn on the ledge
Long leave stuff in deep area surrounded by the weed stuff
Red lotus or lily stuff surrounded by weed stuff
Some pointy stuff with new shoots
Some curly stuff surrounded by weed
Some delicate stuff on the edge
I really don't know where to start. I think the end result id (and my parents) would like to see would be a few cheap goldfish in the pond with a decent arrangement of plants, as my dad is a keen gardener. I don't think they want too much maintence for things like pumps and filters and using what is here would be my primary aim.
Help. 😀
Best Regards,
John
So, my parents recently moved house to north of Aberdeen as they reason they have 10 years of legs left in them to do up another house.
They now have this lovely homestead in farmland quite near to where donald trump is going to build his mega golf resort.
In the grounds of this house is a pond which has been somewhat neglected over the last few years at least which they have yet to have a go at since there are a load more pressing issues for them to see too. But now i'm house sitting for the next three weeks i've started casing my eye over it as a project, at least to get them on the right track.
The pond is 8m long, 3m wide at one end, 4m at the other. The deepest area is about a metre which represents about a third of the area, the rest is about half a metre with a small ledge of about 10 cm depth.
It is heavily planted but very overgrown and i've not got a clue on how to progress with any clearance or cleaning to get it ready for summer. I suspect there is an issue with too much fast growning weed like stuff. I'll annotate the pic's to show.
There seems to be some previous plumbing but no pump or filter present. There is a bank of plugs next to the pond with a switch in the shed labelled "Pump Switch", ive also seen a pond vac manual, but no hardware in the sheds or garage.
There is also a large corrigated pond pipe arcing around from a small depression next to the power, dug into the ridge around one side of the pond which outputs in the shallow end on the ledge, nothing attached to either end.
As far as i can tell there are no fish present, unless they are exceedingly good at hiding in the overgrown pond, plus have ninja heron avoiding skills and could survive with total neglect for 12 months with about a month totally frozen over.
But we have tappoles. 😀
From the house view, shallow ledge nearest
Back at the house, deep end nearest
Under the slab are 3 plug sockets. You can see the pond piping ending here also in a small depression
End of the pond pipe, the wetness here is probably because this depression is below the water line
The ledge is in the upper left part of the pond here. The other end of the pipe comes out at the stones in the water
Frog Spawn on the ledge
Long leave stuff in deep area surrounded by the weed stuff
Red lotus or lily stuff surrounded by weed stuff
Some pointy stuff with new shoots
Some curly stuff surrounded by weed
Some delicate stuff on the edge
I really don't know where to start. I think the end result id (and my parents) would like to see would be a few cheap goldfish in the pond with a decent arrangement of plants, as my dad is a keen gardener. I don't think they want too much maintence for things like pumps and filters and using what is here would be my primary aim.
Help. 😀
Best Regards,
John
