Greg Wittstock the Pond Guy visits our Permaculture Ecosystem Recreation Pond
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- Опубликовано: 30 янв 2024
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I could have hung with you guys PONDSIDE all day long!!! ❤
Missed your videos. Looking forward to this seasons content! ❤
Been watching Greg for 3-4 years now and it's amazing what he does. Joe was an excellent choice for your pond. Had he been closer, I would have looked into hiring him. We chose Jackson Pond in Burlington. If you do tours, it would be awesome to see this pond of yours some day! I'm struggling with plants around my stream and pond and could use some advice.
Love to see people that take pride in what they do, knowledgeable passionate. Great job guys
Totally agree. Having the before and after videos are informative and fun to see. The enthusiasm is infectious. (A whispered comment... I would have liked a bit more variety with the music considering the photography was great).
I’d love to see how the concept of the pond looked on paper.
Absolutely love your pond, garden and ethos. It's what I think about with the features I create for people and also in my own garden. Definitely one of my favourite Aquascape based creations - and I think I've watched almost all of them ,ha ha. All the best from England. Craig
Cheers :)
Wow, summer comes so early in Canada, I had no idea! 😂. Ok, I will admit I was slightly confused and still am about why this has come out in the middle of winter (you referred to "the present" once or twice!), maybe I missed the explanation somewhere. Love seeing the pond anyway and am envious every time as I can't really have a pond where I am (soil is too porous and I don't want to use an artificial liner) and both you and Sean would have to put out a pond video the same week, wouldn't you!
LOL. Yeah, I made this video half a year ago, and had to sit on it until his video was released, so that I could release them at the same time.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I figured it must be a RUclips collab thing :). Well, this video has given me the pond bug again, off to look into "gleying" as a way of getting a pond to seal without clay or liners, I'd never heard of it before the other day, don't know if you have? You just need a load of pigs or ducks... Hmm, that might be the tricky part.
Artificial pond liners aren't too bad. If your dirt is porous, check out gleying techniques... Helps with a few truck loads of clay, lime, cow manure and something to compact the dirt like fencing in a herd of cattle or pigs in the area😢 for about a week... Or you bring in a asphalt vibrator. The problem always comes in the areas of where the dirt meets solid rock and there is different movement between the two. When everything costs so much (particularly bringing in feature rocks), a pond liner seems a technological gift. With the Indian Pani water cup projects, they regarded recharging the aquifers as the most important part of the project, so no ponds had liners and if they dried out that was perfectly ok because they could grow rice during the dry season.
@@annburge291Couldn't agree with this comment more.
@@annburge291 Thanks for the pointers, it's funny you should mention gleying because I only just came across that technique a day or two ago, although I had heard something similar vis-a-vis lining a pond with organic material and trampling it down - I had even tried that with a small patch but evidently you need a LOT of organic material and a LOT of trampling, hence the pigs etc. Which I don't really have access to, unfortunately. Maybe a neighbour's goats, but not sure how I sell him on the idea, the grazing isn't that great! Maybe I am being a bit snobby about the plastic, here I am, you know, trying to create this "natural" environment and I am leaving this great piece of plastic or rubber in the soil. However, it's not just that, it's partly the thing you mention about wanting the water to still have contact with the soil and helping replenish groundwater over time - not that we really have groundwater per se as we are on a hillside (hence the name of my channel), but at least keeping the water on (a flat portion of) the hillside as long as possible and maybe (in my wildest fantasies), replenishing some kind of spring that might pop out further down eventually. So maybe what I do is just create a pond-like indentation on the top third of our land somewhere, divert as much run-off into it as possible and not stress too much about whether there is actually any water being retained, and maybe just try various techniques to line it over time like the gleying/organic material etc.
Wow! You already had your pond by the time I found your channel so I didn't see the pond build originally. What a huge amount of work you've done! I'll watch Greg's video after work. (Watching this one on my lunch break, lol)
It's awesome you had him out there. I hope it brings a bunch of attention to your amazing channel.
Ed the pond professor next? I feel like he really will get and understand all you're doing on the permaculture side. He's definitely more science minded like you.
Yeah, Ed is awesome
I have seen those complicated systems at various shows and every time my mind tells me "No, that many pieces equals that many things that can go wrong". 😂
There's a system at UBC that cleans "grey water" using nothing more than plants. It's part of the landscaping.
It's really not that bad. In terms of moving parts, it's just 3 pumps that I can separate. There's honestly not that much that can go wrong. I do also really love wetland filters and grey water filtration systems like what Geoff Lawton does on some projects. Super cool. They aren't ideal here, with our long winters though. They can work of course, but you just need an alternate system that you valve in when the wetland filter freezes in the winter. It's not like you can just clean your shower water with a grey natural filtration system all year long (unless it's inside the house, but then that creates insurance nightmares, here at least).
I forgot what you started with. The difference is amazing.
Still in love with that pond! You did an still do a great job!
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Loved this video!
You are a real inspiration into how I want to live my life, your content gives joy and just explains what permaculture is. Working with nature is so important and you just ace it !
I have a question, living in Canada, what happens to the pond during the winter ? Does it freeze up ?
Yep! I just turn the pumps off, drain one line that runs a little close to the surface (I think above the frost line), and the pond just freezes over.
I do run an aerator, because it keeps a pocket in the corner from freezing, which allows gas exchange for the fish.
I’m glad you brought up DPG and why you went with Aquascape instead. In my non sciency thought, it does seem like more energy to pump the water vs pump the air bubbles, and I have often wondered why you went aquascape instead. Love the pond though!
A lot of this was with compromise with the rest of the family. It's much easier to sell loved ones on a pond vs a chemical pool when the pond has a beautiful waterfall. That being said, the pumps aren't that much energy and are powered with solar, so it's pretty green still.
This is really cool and it's nice to see your work getting recognition!
I can't help but notice that you've published this late January and yet the garden is looking green and you're wearing t-shirts. When did you film this?
This visit was probably around June/July, can't remember exactly. Because Greg films SO MANY ponds, we had to wait until his video backlog caught up, which is why it's just being released now. I wanted to line the videos up together, so that once his came out, his viewers could be directed here to see our video, and hopefully get addicted to permaculture :)
Excellent
brilliant. cool video bringing together your stuff and adding the pond guys stuff. thoroughly enjoyed it thanks
thoroughly is a tough word to spell!
LOL
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This is my first comment after I watched your pond videos 100 times already. Hello from Croatia. Your pond and garden are just what I want on my new property after I finish the house and move in. Terrain has a similar slope so I will use similar approach, and add the food forest next to it. As ponds are not really a thing here, I will need to contact you for more information on your build, as I will need to do it by myself.
Sure thing. In your email (permaculturelegacy@gmail.com) make sure to mention you are a channel member.
What a great video. Thanks for sharing. You definitely gave me some inspiration for my project here on Vancouver island.
Amazing ecosystem you have.
Great to hear!
Awesome
Love your evolution...keep up great stuff xxxx😂❤
Designed and built my own little ecosystem pond for my aviary/ducks. Would you have any interest in seeing a video on it? Been thinking of doing an urban farm tour. For a long time I didn't even know we had the same kind of pond; can tell our own research lead in the same direction though which is cool.
Hey Keith, I can imagine you might be selling cuttings and seeds from a website. I would love to buy from you. Can you point me in the right direction 🙏
I don't actually, no time to do all that (I work full time in engineering). Maybe one day in my retirement.
Duh, question but where did water come from after lining and stones were laid?
Rainwater collection from the metal roof/solar panels !