Step By Step How To Build A Wildlife Pond
Tips, Tricks
In this episode of UK Here We Grow, Tony O'Neill shows you how to build a wildlife pond step by step. He gives you some excellent tips and tricks on creating a pond that will not only allow you to keep wildlife and fish together in harmony, but will also show you how to keep them safe from herons, cats and other predators. Utilising pond underlay and a pond liner Tony O'Neill creates a love habitat for all wildlife, bringing them onto the allotment which will help him with his quest to remain organic. A pond will help provide an ideal place for frogs and birds all of which will help you combat the slugs and snails found around the garden. During this video, you will see Tony using the Wilkinson Sword Border Spade and Border Fork. He uses these tools as they are smaller than a normal spade and fork and allow him to mould and form the pond in much better detail. UKHWG have been able to secure a 10% discount for our members on all Wilkinson Sword tools available on their website. To get this discount enter the code UKHWG at checkout. Their website is available on the following link https://wilkinsonsword-tools.co.uk/ please note the expiry for this discount code is 31st December 2016 Join us at the following:- Our site http://www.UKherewegrow.com https://www.facebook.com/ukherewegrow/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKHereWeGrow/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/UkHeresABargain/ Twitter https://twitter.com/UKHerewegrow Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+TonysAllotment/posts Email Tony@UKherewegrow.com We would like to welcome all our new subscribers and thank you all for supporting UK here We Grow "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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I thought a pond has to be for fish OR frogs/tads, not both??
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Your videos are very inspiring mate. Just got my first allotment so would love to try a few things out myself.
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Looks great!
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It looks absolutely amazing!
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Hi.Tony,
A top job you have done there mate.. I dug a pond out about 20 years ago and can still remember the amount of soil that I shifted. It blends in really good and pity it is out of the way behind the tunnel, as it would have made a lovely centre piece in any garden. I thought you would have got your watch to park the tender nearby, it would have filled it in minutes!! 😄😄😄😄
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wildlife ponds are brill , i made one which is full of wildlife , i even have some fish which i didnt put in lol, dont know what they are but deffo fish , any how if you put goldfish in which are carp by the way they will eat any eggs or spawn that amphibians lay so putting fish in kind of defeats the object , good luck with the pond by the way anything to encourage our wildlife is awesome :)
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You don't do things by half do you mate. That's a beautiful spot to have on the plot
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Awesome update thanks for sharing have a blessed day
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just a GT video and information on the pond is second to none good job 🐞🐝🐦😀👍👍
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Hello Tony, after taking on my plot, having a tidy well maintained space the wildlife went elsewhere, introducing a bug hotel which hides my Solar Panel and pond the wildlife has now returned. I need to make changes to my pond and this has helped.
😆 Happily Growing in North Warwickshire, England.
Terry. -
I have to say mate that I think this is when you are at your best. Massive project - break it down into sections - amazing design - well executed - like a boss. Brilliant video. I would be interested in your thoughts of building up the banks rather than digging down. There is an area next to my plot that I am considering taking over and a pond would be a great addition, but the reason it is free is because once you get a foot down you hit rock. I do have access to the never ending pile of muck and so I could use it to build banks up and form a series of shelves that way but wondered if you can think of any pit falls. The immediate one that struck me is that the banks will have to be thick and withstand pressure from the water and pressure from the rain. I wondered if flag stones would be a good support. Anyway your design was brilliant. Loved the video. I reckon Tina will be on at you to build a Jacuzzi at hoe now :-) All the best.
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I must show my husband this... He did build a wildlife pond for my allotment, with a moulded liner, but it's not a patch on this. In fact only this morning he mentioned he wasn't happy with it. So I might have a new pond soon. Thanks for showing this Tony.
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Really nice video. Lots of useful tips :)
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Hi Tony
just started watching your vids and some great idea,s that you have and will sure be using some of them
many thanks
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Hello, watching from the United States. I'm wondering if you could answer a couple of questions. Mainly because I'm cheap and try to find alternative free items for projects.
1. What is the function of the pond fabric? I assume to protect the liner from sharp objects? If so, can weed blocking fabric be used or a bed of fine sand like an above ground pool uses?
2. You mentioned winter briefly. We get snow here, would you think the fish can survive in the lower portion if the pond freezes? -
Great job there Tony. I might copy your idea with the gap between the liner and the stone. I built my pond earlier this year - it's video 5 if you want a peep. Keep up the good work. All the best Nic
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That's an amazing pond!
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tony why don't you put a solar pond fountain pump in it that will keep it clean and put oxosegen in pond ....dave..
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WELL DONE TONY...that was a fantastic film to watch you done well and you make it look so easy ,did you do it on your own did you have any help well done........Dave.....
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Built a few of these in my time so nice to see someone else doing the work!! The only thing I disagree with is adding the fish straight away as the water needs to settle first and each fish requires 10 gallons of water volume. By the way for you tube purposes you should have worn speedo''s lol!!
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