Zone11a - Gold Coast, Australia - I am demonstrating how I put sand into a pond, and it does not matter if it is small, like the one in the video, or if it was the size of a football field, it would be the same process.
WHY am I doing this?
I put sand in for the bacteria that it has within it. The sand has come from a river and goes back into water. I find that by using sand a pond will settle in a few months (instead of a year), if set up in the warm weather, which for us is from November to February. If set up later than that it will take longer to settle, and I never set up ponds from July to October. Sometimes I will not even do them in June if it is a cold one.
These two small ponds will be left to sit over winter with just some hornwort in it just to keep the water fresh.
This video was created on 21st June 2024. I live on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. We are in Zone 11a.
27 июн 2024
