Water Gardening: clearing my pond, 1 by rockminer

rockminer wrote:
After fighting a pea soup pond for four years and envying the clarity one can find all over the internet I finally found out about bog filters. Despite dire warnings by a few I finally decided to listen to raves by many and built one about 1/3 the surface area of my pond.

I was sick of my friend's joking question: do you have any fish?

Having spent a fortune on filters, uv, chemicals and a huge amount of labor I went ahead with the final effort before filling in the hole to make another garden.

Since I had a piece of liner large enough left over from my original pond project and a seriously rocky piece of land it was really quite economical to complete.

This pic is very soon after planting the bog plants. Incidentally, the pond was clear 24 hours after turning the pump through the pea gravel before planting anything.