A short garden-along as I complete one of the most interesting and gross tasks of maintaining my backyard garden: changing the pond filter.
Do you have a patio pond? What do you like about it? Let me know below!
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Having a pond used to seem like an unreachable thing for me - it felt like the kind of accessory a rich person has, and all of the equipment seemed very complicated. After building a small patio pond last year, I realized it is not as scary as it seems, and now I am pond-obsessed.
This pond sits on the edge of my patio and holds 100 gallons. It is made from a Rubbermaid stock tank that I got on sale at Fleet Farm early this spring. The bog filter is made from a cheap storage container from Menards and all of the material in the bog filter are things I had laying around - bricks, stone and pebbles.
The pond has become an integral part of having a healthy ecosystem in my garden: it collects rainwater and the fish create fantastic fertilizer. When I change out water, all of the outgoing water goes directly on the plants. I can also grow plants in the pond as well as in the bog filter. The running water attracts more bugs and birds, which is always a plus!
Thank you to Ozponds, who has fantastic tutorials on how to build bog filters. I highly recommend his videos!
/ @ozponds