Today we continued with the RHS pond project. The pond survived all the bad weather over the Christmas holiday. Today we started edging the pond with some rounded logs. The logs came in a roll and had to be cut to fit around our pond. Our students got to do some practical maths, measuring the right length for the side of the pond.
Some webbing was stapled onto the back of the log roll to keep them together while they were cut with a saw.
More cutting. We will use the off-cuts in our outdoor oven - which is our next RHS project for the Spring term.
The logs were then attached to the outside of the pond. We had to be very careful not to puncture the pond liner.
We also started to put the aquatic plants back into the pond - hopefully they will have survived and will show some new growth in the spring.
Putting some irises back into the pond.
It was pretty cold putting the plants back into the pond.
Almost finished, just a bit more edging to put around the back, then a bit of landscaping which we will start after the mobile classrooms have been demolished.
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