In the country area or near the house, there are usually three favorite holiday destinations: veranda, gazebo, swing and pond. Even a small reservoir as a magnet pulls others. Water fascinates even in small quantities ... and the pond can be built in several hours. But it is a small artificial reservoir. For the construction of great and money, and time.
Where to dig
On small artificial reservoirs, it is best to look from above. Because if there is an appropriate sweep on the site, it is best to do it here. There is, however, in this and the negative side: you will have to raise the edges of the bowl higher, so that the rain water does not get inside. The second option is to come up with a water removal system (above the reservoir to make a drainage system).
If there is somewhere on the site the key, it is logical to make a natural pond, dig or deepening the existing bowl by posting by cobblestones or stones of his borders, plant plants. The rod, which is necessarily in this case, can also be created by laying it by a cobblestone, drowned them into a splashing ground, you will give great strength to the shore, you can plant moisture-boring plants between them.
Having placed the coast of stones, avoid soiling soil
Even a small waterfall is a magical spectacle.
How to drive a pond, if there is a natural stream on your site - dig the pit, sorted it with a stone and direct the stream in it
How to make a stream if it's not on your site
Not everyone has such a luxury on the plot, as a stream or key. It is necessary to make artificial reservoirs. With proper registration they look no worse than natural.
How to make an artificial pond with a bowl (without a film)
The easiest and fastest way to make an artificial reservoir in the country is to bury the finished bowl into the ground, issued and reagreeing its edges. Bowls are plastic - ready-made different shapes, sizes and colors (mostly blue, green and black).
Shapes for small ponds on the plot can be different
The device of a plastic garden or dacha pond is a simple matter. Here is a step-by-step instruction:
- It is necessary to dig the pit in the form of a bowl. If the form is very non-standard, you can turn it out at the installation site upside down, outline by something contour (even throw a shovel). The bowl is aside, digging the pit. It should be slightly more - a little wider, but not deeper. The edges or must be on the same level with the soil, or slightly perform. If it turns out to lift a little edge will even better: during the rain, dirty water will not fall.
- After the desired depth is achieved, the bottom is aligned into the horizon: it is aligned at first the shovel, then the surplus is removed and the smooth bar. The surface must be smooth and rigid: plastic should have a good support. If the land is poorly leveling (clay), you can pour out 5-10 cm of sand, wet it and catch it.
- The next step is to install in the boilers. If the bottom was done smooth, the edges of the bowl will become exactly relative to the horizon. Now the space that remains between the wall of the bowl and the pit need to be filled with soil or sand and good to ravibly.
- Now it's about the design: the installation is finished, you can pour water.
As such technology, a pond in the courtyard with backlit was built, look at this photo report (you can flip by yourself by clicking on the thumbnails below).
So big, it would seem, the bowl was very successful in place between the track and the fence
Copy pitted. Decided that the board will be 1-2 cm above the track level - there will be less garbage inside, and the edges decorate stones
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That's about it all will be
It is good that there is a plumbing and sewage. And that was brought. Pond made flowing
This slide is disguised by the plumbing pipe (a jar will be put on it. The bottom of it gently cut out
From this side, just below the maximum level embedded into the bowl of the pipe - so that the water surplus the water. It was brought into the sewer
Still put a little fountain
At night with highlighting our small pond is very beautiful
But not always and not everywhere there is an opportunity to constantly add and remove water into the pond. Then you have to or plant such plants that will clean it, or periodically change it.
Pond from the old bathroom
It is not necessary to buy a bowl. You can use any container. Even an old bath. It turns out very well. All actions are the same, the first digging by the pit, the bath is placed in it, which goes on, look at the series of the following photos. They are transformed on them from the old bath in a truly adorable corner.
It all started as well: Kotlovan, installation of a bath, a rambling around the Earth. Only I wanted to make a paved platform around the pond, and Gliniyanny soil: I will not put anything on it. Therefore, such a cunning was invented: laid out the large fraction of rubble, they were drunk in the rubber image.
The platform was still empty - so that the clay does not swim, and the playground did not sang
A little sand poured on top, and laying stone
Playing process tilomea
Not very beautiful, but already visible contours
This is a month later, such beauty is a garden PRU, built with my own hands I am pleased with
A month later, another perspective
PRADIK MANUAL Tires (with film)
A minibar can be made from the old car tire, or rather from the tire. What it is more, the more reservoir. The most difficult thing in this business is to cut off one side part. If the edge turned out sharp, they need to be treated with sandpaper. The second is the complexity of the task - to dig the pit of the appropriate size. At this difficulty ended. The rest is quite easy.
The cropped tire is installed in the pit, falling asleep on the sides of the earth, is well compacted. Also, the land or sand is poured inside, the bottom is leveling. You take a piece of dense polyethylene film, you can roll twice and drag the resulting tank. Do not try much: install water, it will send the film itself.
Instead of polyethylene, you can take a banner film (there is in advertising firms that produce outdoor advertising) or a piece of special for pools and ponds. They are much stronger (but more expensive).
The protruding ends of the film are touched around the walls of your pond, decorated with stones. The pond device is completed, further - decoration and plant landing. See how to make a tire pond in the photo report.
The cropped tire is installed in the dug hole, fall asleep inside a little ground, leveling the bottom
Film covers. She will keep water
Water poured, the film is finally smoothed, you can wrap the edges and press them with stones
The next stage of the production of a mini-pond for summer cottages - decoration of edges by stones
To conquer the picture, the bottom too laid out stones, installed the pump for aquarium
Water transfusion over the edge when the pump is turned on, diluted over the site: they made a mini-stream, on the edges of which flowers were planted. And mini-reservoir gives life now an extensive area planted with plants
That's certainly nothing complicated in such a device. Such a reservoir in the country can build anyone, and the attachments are minimal.
In general, mini-ponds are made from tanks, barrels, saucepan, even flower pots. The main thing is that there is a corps, and it is not very difficult to arrange it: gradually experiences experience. Put them in the garden, at the cottage, near the house. It is possible to bring water, to make a stream, it can be diluted under trees, such as shrubs. And beauty and benefit at the same time.
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We make a pond with a film
Creating this artificial pond from the film, you almost exactly repeat the work described above, only without installing the bowl:- mark the form of the future pond;
- digging the pit, forming, if necessary, ledges;
- Clean the bottom from any acute items: roots, stones, etc.;
- Align the shores of your pond;
- spread the waterproofing film;
- fill in water pond;
- fix the edges of the film;
- decorate.
The country pond, created by this technology can be more solid sizes. Important moment: on the bulk soil, make it easy to make and put the film will not work. You will have to invent some kind of activities to strengthen the shores. In this case, you will have to or put a bowl, or to make a more serious structure - from brick or concrete. Next, consider examples of how to make a pond from the film.
First project: Board Vrowning with a soil
Eight simple steps and your reservoir on the cottage is built. How to dig and equip the pond in the country, make it look like a natural look in the photo report.
Mark the shape, take off the turne
Digging the pitual, forming a ledge
Align the edges so that the water does not flow out from the other side where the level will be lower
Lay out the film, slightly straightening the folds
Pour water, she finally spreads the film
Refuel the edges of the film and decorate them
Sit down the plants and wait for the rulers)))
Second project: Board raised
The second version of the homemade pond in the first stages is built almost as first. Only after the depth of the pit has reached the project, the side lifted, laying on the edge of the brick and slaining. It turned out with raised sides. Another water circulation system is still made. It is presented in the figure below.
How to make a pond with a pump for a stream. Its arrangement is already a little more complicated, but the result is more decorative
As you can see, this pond is more multi-layered and litter it is more serious. If you want to have a reservoir at least medium sizes and do not build a serious bowl, you can act as shown in the figure: to squeeze the created with sand, cover with geotextiles, and only on top to put the film. Geotextile evenly distributes the load and does not allow to germinate by plants. This is especially true if you build a pond in the garden and have shrubs or trees nearby.
Having placing the plot, dig up the pit
Sideboard raised: laid out with a leaned and buried on half the height of bricks, are slainer on top
Film is laid, nanite water, edges are wrapped around the sides
A decorative stone is laid out on the outer edge, expanding the side. From above, closing the edge-covered edge, the saw finishing stone is stacked on the cement
The design of the board is finished, we begin to form a stream, closing the pump housing
That's how everything looks in the finished form before the plants
These are already the plants have grown, decorative pond is ready
Another perspective
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Serious projects: from brick and concrete
If you want to have a big pond in the country, and you wish to build it with your own hands, you will have to study the topic for the construction of the pools. First, the construction of cups - one to one repeats all the stages. Even the forms are sometimes done stepwise. True, the shores are not executed by plants, and they do not plant them in the pool itself ... But the process of construction, with reinforcement, plaster, waterproofing is the same. Moreover, the water supply and water purification system is also similar. Except that the ponds do not use chemical methods of cleaning, but filters, scremmers and ultraviolet can be used.
In general, the big pond is the cheapest pleasure. Moreover, expenses require only construction, but also maintaining a large reservoir in a normal state: the filters need to be cleaned regularly and change cartridges or backfill. But pleasure, of course a huge ...
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Not the biggest pond, but 10 bags of cement went on it, 30 sand bags (20 large and 10 small), hydrophobic additive - 5 packets so that concrete is water-repellent. Mained on fixed grid
After drying, the plaster painted acrylic paint for pools (5 liters left)
To check, filled with water, left for a week. There is no leakage anywhere. Merged, finished finish and settled fish
And this is a winter pond. In our places only in the frost is covered with ice, and it does not freeze the bottom. Fish winters there
And this is our fish
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Plants for the pond
Forming or choosing a bowl, consider not only its shape and depth. If you want plants into the pond, a swampy coastal area is necessary. If we form with a film using a film, you can make approximately such a profile as in the picture.
How to make the bottom under the plants correctly. The arrangement of the pond will be easier if they make ledges at different levels, decompose the stones, pour a little soil in them
It is more convenient to do this if you squeeze the sand layer at least 15 cm thick. With it, you can make relief as you like. To work was easier and the film was not broken, in the sand lay geotextiles. This thin membrane is very durable on the gap. You can do what you want, and do not break it. By molding with its help the desired bottom relief, you can put the film and lay stones on it, pour water and plant plants for a pond at different levels.
In order for the water to be enough oxygen, you can plant Canadian, rogolnik and the shroud. They are in the photo below. Sit down into the water are aquatic plants.
These plants enrich oxygen water
Deep-sea
They are squeezed in its deepest place, on the bottom in special pots with a lot of holes. In the pot, the ground around the roots of the plant is well crimped and falling asleep with a small gravel. Stones prevent leaching and do not give fish (if a pond with fish) to dig it.
It is best to feel in artificial water bodies (dwarfing, multiceface and prone), pita (white and hybrid), ride floating, ordinary television.
Ordinary television
RTES Floating
Cube multidebestine
Whitewaters
Shallow water
This type of plants can be planted at the shore itself or at the middle depth, sometimes - in general near the shore on almost a dry place. The planting method is similar: in containers with soil, sprinkled with small gravel. Only this time in order to limit the growth of plants: in good conditions, it grows very quickly.
Deep-sea and shallow plants should not be more than 30%, otherwise most of the water surface will be closed with leaves, and this is already a swamp. Suitable for artificial water bodies. Some of these plants for the dacha pond are in the photo below.
Coastal
These plants grow well on the overwheck. They are planted with groups, more shorter closer to the shore, then higher. When making an artificial reservoir, it is not worth pleasing the shores in the first year. A year later, you will have to deal with their ingrowth. If you have chosen to plant a tree or shrub, do not place it close so that it does not close the pond. There are a lot of plants, just some: Astilba Chinese
So that water in the pond does not bloom is important, of course, have filters, but there are natural filters. These are also plants: water hyacinth, which is also called Eukhore, excellent and beautiful.
So that water in the pond is not blooming, put this beautiful flower
Now you can not only make a pond with your own hands, but also to plant it with beautiful plants.