Pimp my pond! Static wildlife pond construction part #1: Ground work in the snake pit!
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Ed & Dave reunite to begin work on a new project that veers away from their typical build; a static pond with the emphasis firmly on wildlife. It seems that wildlife is already in abundance in this garden however-with a particularly healthy population of grass snakes! Watch on to see how this pond develops…
You are fantastic with information and tricks, and plans. Ty. I will share your channel as often as I can. Keep up the great work!
Thanks Jim, very kind of you to say so and glad you enjoy the channel!
Best regards,
Ed
So looking forward to the next episode
Thanks for watching and commenting Ian! Part #2 coming soon!
Best,
Ed
Welcome back😃 I’ve been waiting patiently 🎉 seems an age. Really great to see you both again can’t wait for part 2 👍🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
As always great content love your videos
Thanks Barry!
Best,
Ed
Hi Ed, Thought you had got sun stroke for a second when you started hand tamping with the Wacker Plate standing there doing nothing you and Dave certainly take on some hard graft jobs in blazing hot weather ,but its obvious you enjoy {almost} every minute, cant wait for part two.
Ha Ha! Hi Norman, the wacker plate was supposed to be out of shot, but although a man of many talents, Dave would be the first to admit filming is not his forte!!
Thanks for watching and commenting as always!
Best,
Ed
Great job,but watching you both do all that digging,I think I need a holiday…
Ha! Think I need one too……!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Best,
Ed
nice
Thanks very much!
Best,
Ed
Consider me a new subscriber :D brilliant work, keep it up!!
Hi there and welcome to the channel! Thanks for watching and your sub!
Best,
Ed
12:25 brilliant 😂
Ha Ha! Blink and you miss it!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Best,
Ed
I love your videos as I want a pond built but stuggling to find someone. As I'm snake phobic I didn't get to see all of it as I was hiding behind my laptop lol
Hi Paula, thanks for watching and commenting. Fully understand the fear of snakes but I have to say they are wonderful things and such a rarity for me to see such an abundance of grass snakes in one area!
Good luck with your pond!
Best,
Ed
I’m knackered after all that work 😂 Little grass snakes absolutely stunning. Good job guys.
Yep I’m pretty much done in for a little while now!! Aren’t those little snakes gorgeous?! I was so pleased to keep coming across them!
Thanks as ever for watching and commenting!
Best,
Ed
Thanks!
Ah Tony you never disappoint😂 thank you so much for your generosity!
Have a great wk end,
Ed
Always exciting to see the start of a new pond.
Thanks for watching and commenting David, stay tuned for part #2 coming soon!
Best,
Ed
Lovely to see the start of a new pond. And the care you take of the native wildlife. Thank you :-)
Thanks very much and glad you enjoyed it! For me I get a huge amount of enjoyment discovering and interacting with some of the wildlife I encounter whilst doing these jobs!
Best,
Ed
Lovely to see the start of a new pond.
Thanks Terry, glad you enjoy watching!
Best,
Ed
Glad to see the start of another project. Look forward to the next video.
Thanks very much for watching and commenting, part #2 too follow soon!
Best,
Ed
Was chuffed to see a new upload 😊 looks great - nice to see lots of grass snakes! Looking forwards to part 2!
Thanks Thomas, part #3 coming soon!
Best,
Ed
Nice video Ed and valuable information for folks that have a wasted area like these homeowners have. But you are proving that it doesn't have to be an eye sore but can be turned into a useful integration to the aquatics systems. Love it !
Thanks Tony- as ever its a pleasure to hear from you and thanks once again for watching and commenting!
Best,
Ed
Thanks Ed. I really enjoy your videos. Top notch mate
Great vid Ed, really enjoyjng watching younwork. do you ever use clay, instead of a liner? Is one better than another? Cheers
Thanks for your kind words Jason and good question! No, i’ve never created a natural clay lined pond, although something i’d like to do one day. The issue with clay for lining is with the addition of livestock the persistent movement from fish can cloud/muddy the water, not ideal if water clarity is important. A specialist pond liner consisting of a sandwich of bentonite clay is available, providing the benefits of a self healing pond liner (which is a benefit of clay) with the advantages of more modern lining materials (such as less/no muddying of the water) but it is a very expensive and heavy product!!
Best,
Ed
When would you consider the best time to enlarge a wildlife pond as I would like to to make my pond much larger
Morning Martin, thanks for your comment and my apologies for the slow response- does your pond attract much wildlife-particularly amphibians? If so I’d avoid spring time (from around mid feb through to early summer) as this is when they will be spawning and their young maturing. If however none are present (in a koi pond for example) then spring is fine. Mid summer through to autumn is a good time to work on ponds (and water temperatures make it more pleasant as well!) heading into winter livestock will be settling down and frogs (if you’re lucky enough to have some) preparing to semi hibernate in the water, again best to avoid then, particularly so as working in water in the depths of winter is pretty horrible and undertaking groundwork a messy process.
Hope this helps and good luck!
Best,
Ed
When are we gonna see your pond completed ed
….sensitive subject that…!! Will be doing further work to it later this week!
Thanks for watching and commenting,
Best,
Ed
Hi Ed, another great video. I finished my koi pond about a month ago (I’m currently going through the phase of explaining to my wife the financial decisions I’ve made😂) and would love to know how you got into fish and pond building?
Thanks Craig and good luck with trying to justify this to your other half!! I’d start by explaining the huge importance in creating a rapidly declining habitat for native wildlife and the positive mental effects of unwinding besides a lovely pond at the end of a hard day. Also expensive jewellery could help….!! As for how I got into what I do? I shall save your question for a Q&A video to mark the 10k sub count!!
Best regards,
Ed