Water Gardening: Down Under pond now, September 2013, 3 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
I'm at the opposite end of the seasonal cycle, but still our dry season. Thought it might look a bit strange posting this in the "end of summer" thread when it's actually end of winter here.

Since my new pond is completely dry I got the tractor into it and dug it deeper. Found a sheet of corrugated plate steel, about 6mm thick. Bigger than the tray of a pickup truck (and probably as heavy). I couldn't even lift one side of it, but with the help of the tractor that's out of the way now. Probably won't get time to concrete the pond before the rains come so I might just have to let it go natural again this season. I'm planning to plant a Victoria amazonica in it, I can get seeds from Thailand, currently 10 for $12.99 plus whatever for postage.

The first pic is the pond last season. Second is after heavy rains. Third is the corrugated plate steel. Last is how the pond looks now after the extra digging.