Today we were working on our pond with Sarah from the RHS. Firstly sand was put down all over the bottom of the pond, then a special fluffy liner, and then a pond liner.
The students are helping flatten out the liner and remove some of the creases, tucking the liner around the edges.
This is the fluffy material which lies between the sand and the pond liner.
Under the fluffy layer is a layer of builders sand.
Sarah is pulling some of the creases out of the liner.
I'm not sure what one of our students is doing here - but I'm sure he is helping to pull the liner into shape?
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| Working out a problem with the pump. |
We had to dismantle a bit of the pump to work out how we were going to put it all back in the pond to ensure that the liner is flush with the edge. Some of our students enjoy trying to work out how to solve practical problems.
Filling the pond up.
We started filling the pond today, it got about half full and we decided to turn the tap off and continue tomorrow - it got dark and we were worried we would forget to turn it off! The water has to stand for a week in the pond before we start to put the plants back in.
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