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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: carosanto on November 15, 2017, 16:28:25
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Hi Everyone,
Haven't been on for ages, too busy with my new garden, which is turning into a bit of a nightmare. It slopes gently downwards, and, as you would expect in Cornwall, with all the rain there is a damp bit at the bottom. No problem really, I'll cope with that. But it has a small round island bed, 5ft across, once populated by a terrible dead apple tree, and bluebells......loads of 'em. I love bluebells, but couldn't stand the ugliest old tree stump in the world, and dug out the stump, dug out the blue bells and moved those I wanted to keep, and intend to fill my nice round hole with cobbles, topped by a birdbath.
Well I've dug out fine enough but now my nice round hole is a mini pond every time it rains. Before I start to fill it up with cobbles, I need to lay drainage. Any suggestions, i.e. coarse stones, then fine grit, a semi permeable membrane? Ideas would be so welcome, as we already have one pond and don't need another! Help needed here! Thanks in advance.
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Sounds like you need to do herringbone drainage starting from the top, a lot of work but would be worth it in the. :coffee2:
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I expect it is naturally wet, that is why the apple tree died. I would dig a trench the depth of the hole to lead the water elsewhere, preferably to a sink hole. Lay any old rubble in the bottom and back fill. But it is winter and that is what holes in the ground do at this time of year.
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I would make a pond, sounds like what nature intended.
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I would make a pond, sounds like what nature intended.
and build your birds a floating "bath", a raft of 4 logs with a woven basket slightly submerged would do it , giving them some protection from marauding moggies. Simply moor between 4 cords.