Netting around plants?

"k conover" wrote:

Maybe it's a stupid question--you either have netting or plants in the
pond, but not both?

A well designed pond can easily have both plants and fish and no
netting. The sides must be vertical so the herons can't stand on the
side and eat fish. You need shallow places for the plants, but they
don't have to be near the edge. You need protective outcroppings where
the fish can hide.

I accomplish this by having vertical walls where the water depth is a
minimum of 24". Then the marginal plants are planted on submerged
greenhouse benches that are covered with pots and baskets. The fish and
resident snake can hide under the benches. The oxygenators, submerged
plants and water lilies are no problem.

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herons dont need a ledge, they can fly right into a pond and eat while floating and
swimming around.
herons have evolved for millions of years to be patient until the fish come back out
to eat after running for cover.

A well designed pond can easily have both plants and fish and no
netting. The sides must be vertical so the herons can't stand on the
side and eat fish.
The fish and
resident snake can hide under the benches.


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What material are the greenhouse benches made out of? Another thing I'm
considering that someone on this newsgroup had done is "walling off" one
edge of the pond with bricks or stone and putting most of tall plants in
that area--I won't have to net that section since the fish will be on the
other side...only problem I've run into is finding a real type of brick that
doesn't contain lime (all the "brick" and stone carried at Home Depot
contains
materials that will leach lime into the water--according to the
manufacturers who told me not to use them in my pond)

"Stephen M. Henning" wrote in message
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"k conover" wrote:

Maybe it's a stupid question--you either have netting or plants in the
pond, but not both?

A well designed pond can easily have both plants and fish and no
netting. The sides must be vertical so the herons can't stand on the
side and eat fish. You need shallow places for the plants, but they
don't have to be near the edge. You need protective outcroppings where
the fish can hide.

I accomplish this by having vertical walls where the water depth is a
minimum of 24". Then the marginal plants are planted on submerged
greenhouse benches that are covered with pots and baskets. The fish and
resident snake can hide under the benches. The oxygenators, submerged
plants and water lilies are no problem.

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cedar or redwood for benches.
buy a brick, put that into a gallon of your water and see if the pH rises. if water
is not flowing (? do you want to make a veggie filter? then line it with pond liner)
then calcium wont leach into the pond in significant amounts. Ingrid

"k conover" wrote:
What material are the greenhouse benches made out of? Another thing I'm
considering that someone on this newsgroup had done is "walling off" one
edge of the pond with bricks or stone and putting most of tall plants in
that area--I won't have to net that section since the fish will be on the
other side...only problem I've run into is finding a real type of brick that
doesn't contain lime (all the "brick" and stone carried at Home Depot
contains
materials that will leach lime into the water--according to the
manufacturers who told me not to use them in my pond)


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