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We've rinsed the pond really well from all the construction dust.
And we've pumped it out to the garden.
We've also started to add some terrestrial plants around the outside of the pond.
It's really important to have some plants around the outside,
not only to add some interest and depth to the, to the water feature but
also provide some shelter for the frogs as they make their way to the pond.
We don't wanna it baring around there, otherwise,
the predators are gonna come after them.
So we still have some liner across the front that we're gonna hide and disguise.
And we'll show you how to do this edge treatment.
So this is not just floundering out here.
We'll make it look nice and natural.
And then once we get that tackled,
we'll be able to introduce some tadpoles.
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So we're gonna cut off this excess liner.
Typically, I'll leave a few inches, five or six inches right here,
and then we'll do a ,a fold and a tuck right here.
And then I can back the soil right to it.
If you wanted to.
Well, I still wanna raise the water level in the pond a little bit, so
that's why I'm gonna go like this and tuck this up like that.
But, if you had the water level nice and high, you back filled it, you could
potentially leave this liner, and you could put gravel or mulch or dirt over top of this.
And then that, that could help, keep the weeds down around the pond.
But we wanna put some plants next to the edge of the pond.
And we're gonna do this tuck method on here.
So first I'm gonna cut this, all the way around the edge.
And then I'll come back through, and I will cut the excess fabric, as well.
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So I'm gonna fold this liner, like this and Taylor, give me some soil right there.
Yeah.
Need another one.
Then we'll compact that tight.
I'll move along the way.
Let's go over here, son.
More dirt here.
Yeah, just right.
Yes.
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[SOUND] Now I'll put a little bit, I'll put a little rock right there.
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It's looking good.
All right, let's just keep working our way around the pond.
Let me get a tuck like that.
I think I'll put a rock here.
Give me some, give me some dirt son.
Right here.
Yeah.
And over by my left hand.
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Keep it coming.
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I love this little Mando grass.
Can I have another one.
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If you'll notice, around the pond, there is,
there'll be some spots where you can still see the liner, as we have it folded up,
next to the gravel, or to the, to the rock.
So, what we're gonna do now, is we're gonna go around the entire pond and
we'll use a combination of cobble, gravel, and bark and we'll disguise all this, so
you don't see it, it just looks natural [SOUND]
See, we can bring in some dirt, like this.
So, how about some gravel?
[SOUND] And then let me have,
let me have some of that bark.
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I'm gonna use this really dark, rich colored
bark around the edges of the pond, and in combination with some of this gravel.
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