Garden pond made of mortar troughs
Last year, we decided to bring water to our garden.
Dig a hole without much effort, a finished pond tub in, plants and good it is.
Now the commercial tubs were big and thin-walled and expensive ...
My husband was to take over the shoveling and we did not want that much pond.
Then my eyes fell on these black mortar tubs.
"We'll take one and see if that even fits." It was okay, but it was quite small. "We just buy a second tub and put it aside". That also worked.
Two holes were dug next to each other, the tubs placed on styrofoam and covered with styrofoam on the sides, so that the frost does not destroy the whole thing.
Now stones should be around it. We had in the garden which - too little. Then my husband dragged rocks home by bicycle - I do not want to know where he took them. "Back there" somewhere in stony nature.
From then on we have taken stones from every pebble, every construction excavation, every natural parking lot.
Reed grass got given by the neighbor. House sausages bought. Another neighbor has given me water snails - multiply unrestrained! Two water plants bought, also a water lily.
In the winter on the top was an ice layer - but everything expelled again in the spring.
More expelled than intended.
The reed grass became too tall, the small plantlets of bellflower and lady's mantle have developed splendidly. In other words, it will be dug up and rebuilt in the next few weeks, but that fits.
Now we flirt with another mortar trough ... look at it.
By the way, the water snails keep the water clean. Rain renews and replenishes, only when it is quite hot, then I remove some of the warm water and fill it with rainwater from the bin.
Now I'm waiting for a frog!
