A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2006 DIGGING QUESTION HERE!!

HAH!...water comes from the SEA here ...u see QATAR is SORROUNDED BY SEA...its comes from a disallination plant, and is filtered before it gets to the taps...its free so i can just leave in the piper all day long (H) hehe, and by the way, where does all ur excess water go???...yeh loz am thinking of planting plants, and gud news ppl!!!....my digging is 45% done!!! ONE MORE DAY i and ive done digginG!...one stupiod question really, do turtles require the same things, pumps filters, or can they live normally??

sorry jiffymouse about the caps

Well a real pump will sit in the pond and suck water up through it....then spit it out into the pond...so there is no extra excess water, it's just getting sucked in, and pushed out repeatedly.........

Are your parents excited about the pond too?

my dads actually quite supportive :thumbsup: my mom doesnt mind, my 14 year old brothers helping a lot in the digging, and my friends think i wont be able to make it still 47% done hehe...wut bout turtles?

Here's an older topic.......

turtles

Glad your family is supportive....Luckily my husband dug our pond out........I'm a weakling.

LOL i am skinny and underwieght :p
but AM the one digging the hole LOL!, and I am really proud of the depth i have i have reached, i think its 1.5 to 2 feet deep ...now ill read about the turtles..coz am taking a break from diggin! hehe
ill post pictures up of my hopefully beautiful pond :p (soon)

Great, you'll be proud of yourself when it's all done.

Do you have a good pond liner? And it's good to have an underlayment before putting the liner down........some kind of padding. We just used some old thin carpet.

i have a thick clear plastic sheet, its not being used so i thought id use it...its pretty thick, and as for padding, ill use the soild i dug out??? its would be just the soil without the stones and rocks...but i must admit, diggin is a hard job..i dug 4 hours yesterday (when i started) and 3 hours today.. i think ill do 5 hours diggin today....anyways? did u get blisters too while digging or is it only me??

by the way...i think ill buy myself a pump hehe, its worth it! altho due to lack of choice in the shop (theres only one petstore which is in the town 6 km away) i will haev to spend loads from my saving!

I used roofing rubber for our liner......it will last for a long time. The thicker the better.

I did get blister when I dug out the flowerbed that the pond went in. That was hard working digging up the grass.....but like I said my husband dug the actual pond out.

How hot is it over there today? And what time is it? It's 11:54 AM here.

its getting cooler now maybe 30-38 degrees Celcius, and its 7 pm here getting dark..but ive got lights in my backyard so its not a problem

also we only have a patch of grass hehe...but the harder work is digging out the ground here! theres like these 2 layers of marble and limestone just 5 inches below surface :|

Wow, that's pretty hot!!!! I had to find the celsius to fahrenheit converter, but that's from the high 80's to 100's! It's about 86 here right now, but VERY humid.

Keep on digging, you'll get it done!

MY MY MY...i just descovered this floor od ROCK!..solid hard...under THAT is the easy thing to get out...clay :p

Hey all, is it easy for a small sharp kinda rock to tear thro the plastic liner????

Sure it is, especially with all the weight of the water on the liner. That's why it's best to have a thick liner, and an underlayment....something on the ground under the liner as a cushion sort of.

now that i have nearly finished digging...how will i keep away the cats from the fish? 2 feet is not deep enough for a cat to go in a attack fish is it? do u recommend i go dig a bit deeper??

Are there a lot of cats around there?

My pond is 20 inches deep and with all the plants I think the cats have a hard time getting to them......

WOW!!!! I HAVE FINSISJHED DIGGIN!...the deepest part is around 30 feet deep, and on average its around 22 feet deep!!! i feel do proud
PS: there is one HUGE rock in the middle becoz of which the average depth is not as deep as it couldve been, and also i still have to paste a thick layer of sand on the rocks and then its ready!! hopefully, by tonite i will put in the water, and in one weeks time i will have fishes, turtles and a pump ofcourse in there!!! thnx for ur help evreyone, and loz, there ARE a lot of cats around, but now my "pond" is deep enough to survive there attack

THATS me proud of wat i dug!!!heheits knee depth which makes it 2.5 feet deep?

how do i post up pictures? :S

how to post pictures

It'll explain it all to you, you need a free photo account like photobucket....do you have a digital camera?

Do you have any old used carpet somewhere that you could use under your liner, to keep the rocks from cutting through it?

thnx both,,,yea i took a picture , and i found a way to stop the rock cutting thro, one more question tho...can i put in the pump and filter later?? i mean: put in water today, and put in pump filter and fishes next week? it wont be hard to do that would it? sorry if my question isnt clear...

yes, that is a perfect way to do it. let the water "settle" first. good luck and congrats on the finished project!