I realise I’m a little late to the party here but just to let you know you’ve inspired me to build a small frog pond in my garden. A little tip for anyone doing the same, if you put large flat stones around the edge they will overhang the pond and hide the pond liner. That’s the theory anyway! Thanks again.
Hello and congrats on making a little pond! I can't believe how many comments this video still receives 6 years later :) I'll be building a new pond on the new plot this year too with lots of changes!
After 20yrs of having a plot I've just put a pond in. 8x3x3 and it's not easy. Lovely to see a lovely lass thinking the same way I do. If you are ever in Gateshead, get in touch. x
Thanks awfully Katie, I am going to build a pond in my back garden due to your guidance and advice I am now confident of having my pond established, cheers, Cliff.
I know this is an oldy. I love little ponds. You can do so much with them. I like it so you made it for nature. You have a great channel. I really enjoy looking at other peoples ponds and fish. I have 4 koi ponds and a fish room with multiple tanks. My ponds are surrounded by decking and trees. If you would like to view them that's great. If not that's ok too. Thanks again for sharing and take care.
Good job, Katie! It's so refreshing to know someone as young as you enjoys gardening. I love your creativity and see that you don't mind hard work! Keep up the good work.
When I hear you say that the pond is a bit large I chuckle to myself... I bought my first house a while back and it had a half acre pond in the back. Now that was a BIT LARGE. LOL. It was the highlight of my life though. Watching all the different wildlife that depended on it was just amazing. I would sit for hours watching all the activities. Your videos are very inspirational, thank you for sharing.
Thanks for sharing this. I have been wanting to do a pond. Small like this and this is very encouraging. Of course here in the states they have people doing all kinds of things with pumps... Love the naturalness of this.
Katie thanks for your inspiration I have been wanting to do this for a long long time and you make it look 👀 so simple, I will follow your example, you make me so excited!!! Thank you so very very much for your wonderful work!!!
You are a true delight to watch. Excellent presentation style and great channel. Ponds are my thing and I have a great niche gardening business in the North East specialising in pond construction and maintenance. I never allow any visible pond liner (VPL) so a little tip for when you build your next one. (you will I guarantee it, it cant be helped, they're addictive) Add a shallow ridge all round the perimeter that sits lower than the water level. Drop in your stone work or as I do, upturned turves. Stack your stones from the ridge up out of the water or lie the turves half in half out. This way as the water level naturally changes through evaporation and rain fall the liner is never exposed. Turf is great as you can pop little plant plugs into it, which will get established before the grass turns itself the right way up and starts to grow. It forms a lovely natural margin to your pond.
Hi Katie, I am so inspired by what you have done that I shall follow your tips and make one myself. Have been looking for ideas on how to do it, thinking that it had to be difficult, but you've shown me that it really doesn't have to be. It's amazing what you've done, and thanks for taking the trouble to share.
Only just watched this, brilliant work! I have a small pond and this has inspired me to make a bigger and better one in the back garden. Have had a few small frogs and would like to attract some more.
Toads don't normally stay in ponds and often find damp hidden places, example the toads in my garden are often found in my garden shed, it is cool and safe for them, one toad always sits on an upturned saucepan on the floor of my shed, might be an idea to make a habitat like lifting a slab, hollow the underneath and put the slab back, leave an entrance for them and the will be safe under the slab and can spawn their young in your pond, good luck.
Hey Katie, a pond is on my agenda this year on my allotment, we can all benefit from great wildlife on our plots so I need to do some catching up. Thanks for all the great videos you are sharing.
lovely commentary and illustrated vid thank you ,love the little pond it's a credit to you , one would be concerned about your respiratory , your hard breathing it seems , keep safe and well Shane
I have to laugh. You're the most "proper" English girl on RU-vid. What a sweetheart. No specimens like you in Brooklyn! Are you as sweet as you appear and do you cook? Glad some like you haven't gone extinct.
I can assure you PalJoey that Katie is one of the last of the super-sexy young English girls. She most certainly is a sweetheart too and it's almost certain that she can cook anything perfectly. Take her out for dinner and watch all the other guys looking at your with envious eyes. Some lucky bloke is going to marry her one day!!
Thanks for the confirmation. But according to one of her last videos, she's found a bloke with a farm What heaven for her. I guess I won't be applying for a passport after all.
nice job ! and you do it all ,plus a great talent in design i bet ill see you soon on alan tischmarsh show please keep posting ill watch and so will many others.
We got a late start on our little pond and I’m having trouble finding floating plants and such. I got 3 water hyacinths and 3 water lettuce, but I love your water forget-me-nots! BUT! We have at least 3 frogs in it already! I hope you have frogs as well. This will be the first one I have had that will not have any fish. At least for this year!
Our local world of water recently shut down and I'm also wondering where I can buy new plants for my new pond when I start building it. The water forgot me not is amazing and the frogs love hiding under, this video was filmed over 6 years ago now but I counted 9 frogs at one time once :)
You're certainly not scared of a bit of hard work, that's a great job, and fits in really well with your plot. Another lovely video, thank you. Best Wishes, Brendan.
Hello Katie Fantastic pond in a perfect place after being inspired by you as to the changes I can make to my plot and a good relook at it ,I think I'll go with its natural environment instead of going against it, as I am next to some huge trees maybe meadow and native plants then save for years for a tunnel or greenhouse for year round veg and goodies.
Thank you Jeni :) I wish my whole plot could be a wild meadow! There's a lack of wild flower meadows round here and I would love to just run about in one! I'm sure you allotment is going to look beautiful and a poly tunnel is a great idea, my dad is thinking of making his own poly tunnel too :)
With my fish pond, I have to let the chlorine evaporate first--then treat the water with an aloe vera product for fish, Stress Coat, before adding to the pond. You could add a few feeder Goldfish to save their lives. I have a water lily in my pond.
I’m 33 and wish more amazing women like this one existed .. someone who actually cares about animals and the environment.. instead of social media crap and getting drunk . Really nice to see and gave me inspiration for my pond :) thanks
The two oxygenator plants will be ample for that size pond, any more when it grows & you'll have far to much. Well done. Does the hose supply rain water? Rain contains nutrients aiding growth etc
I know this was over a year ago, and you have plenty of frogs now as you have said in more recent videos of yours I've seen, but I'd like to say that it seems to me that by adding a little battery-operated light hanging just above the pond, it would attract insects which would certainly attract the bugs! You may have done this already. I've learned quite a bit from you watching all your videos. I didn't know frogs would eat the slugs. Yay! I might just build myself a pond, too!
+ShushLorraine What a great idea! I never thought about attracting insects, was so focused on the little froggies but this makes so much sense, thank you!
Hi! Katie I love your idea and this beautiful result which was so productive. I think I can notice you getting tired out just by talking. From my own experience, I think it would be fair for me to advise you to check your cardio. I learned this the hard way where they have to cut me open to replace a valve. Take care. Love your work.
Hi Katie, you did a fab job! Really admire you for that. It is wonderful to behold. How are you going to keep the algae down until the frogs and tadpoles arrive? Will the oxygenating plants do the job? I ask because I have 3 small ponds in large tubs. I do have tadpoles which seems to be working but when they become frogs, there could be a problem. I am waiting for a delivery of oxygenating plants hoping they do the job too. I don't have power so can't put in filters etc. Cheers, Deborah
I love the way your allotment is looking . I working on my pond it's a lot biger its 22 feet x46 feet .I live in Canada , im hopeing to have a lot of froges in and fish. happy graden. from Harry
Looks fab!!! :-) I am planning to put a pond roughly that size in my garden in the spring, as I think a few little frogs may be living under my decking, I have to watch out for them when (the rare occasions!) I cut the grass. What were the names of the other plants you put in? You only named the forget-me-not. Don't put fish in, they will eat the tadpoles! You should post an update of how it looks now, a year on. xx
Thanks for the video, we had a horrible plastic molded pond we dug out to make a better one like yours. The best part was all the 'lady patting', oh we patted away with Pat the lady patter.. we don;t have lady hands so we needed to bring in a patting specialist called Pat. Anyway, thanks for the tutorial and just out of curiosity have you ever watched the video back with CC activated? it's brilliant. Anyone after a pond liner in the UK check B&Q., we got a 2.5mx2m one for about £20. Other than ordering from amazon and waiting ages that was the best priced one we found.
