HI From SE PA

[neptunesgardener]

Hi everybody! I'm John and while I don't have a permanent pond on my property I do run several 1/2 barrel container ponds each spring and summer for plants and breeding tropicals, and just hit the jackpot as far as containers go! The place I was working at changed hands and in the process I was able to obtain an approx 350 gal 4'L x 4'W x 3'H double wall plastic container designed to be moved with a pallet jack. The water garden this upcoming season will be much more interesting that's for sure! I also have an area in my backyard that stays wet and often has standing water for extended periods of time that I've just started working with so I hope to be able to gain alot of good info and possibly access to some native wetland plant material here! I have a lot of aquarium experience and have worked on ponds a bit but there's definitely a lot to learn and I look forward to doing it here!

 

[DrCase]

Welcome to the Forum !!

 

[addy1]

Glad you joined! If you put your pond in the wet spot, make the edge is high enough to keep run off out of your pond. Or put your pond somewhere else and make that area a native bog.

 

[taherrmann4]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[sissy]

welcome and have a similar tank that I bought from tractor supply .I got it dirt cheap because the top was damaged and the lid was missing ,no big deal did not need the lid and the part that was damaged I was going to cut away to open up the top of the tank .I guess you are going to have good fun this spring deciding on plants to grow

 

[neptunesgardener]

The container will be up on the front porch because it's the only place where it will get enough sun for lilies to bloom. I got the lid with mine and if I can get my garage better organized I'm going to get a pallet jack and just move the whole thing inside for the winter. A shady native bog is what I have in mind for my wet spot. I put a few Spicebushes, Arrow Wood Viburnums and Red Osier Dogwoods in this fall that I rescued from a future construction site and am pretty much at the point of needing more herbaceous plants than woody stuff. I'm also seriously considering excavating a nice sized pit and filling it with a peat moss mix and growing some hardy Pitchers and maybe some other carnivores.

 

[sissy]

You can ask addy about those plants because she grows them in her bog and you can check out florida hill nurseries they have great plants and are really cheap and shipping is 6.99 for one plant and 3 more you buy ship free

 

[addy1]

. I'm also seriously considering excavating a nice sized pit and filling it with a peat moss mix and growing some hardy Pitchers and maybe some other carnivores.

So far they are surviving the winter, we have dropped down below 10, but no real snow load. In fact some are starting to grow again.

If you do that make a mix of 50/50 peat moss and construction sand (cheaper than playbox sand) Our well is acidic so that helps keep the ph down, which they love, the peat does the same. the mix does not need to be more than 12 inches deep, they do not have deep roots. They like a wet dry cycle, I have a few in the pond bog/filter that are wet all of the time and they are doing well.

 

[j.w]

neptunesgardener
Will be fun seeing what and how you do it all

 

[koidaddy]

Welcome. What part of SE Pa are you in. I was born in Reading and lived in and around the area untill 1980.

 

[Becky]

Welcome to the forums! :wave:

 

[neptunesgardener]

I'm just outside Norristown.

 

[koiguy1969]

Norris town...named after Chuck?..........lol....... welcome to the group.

 

[taherrmann4]

Welcome to the group.

 

[rebelangel_3733]

Welcome! They are a comical bunch in here but know their stuff!