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Build a water garden with aquatic plants and simple supplies.
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The most important part of building your own water garden, says show host Kim Haworth, is making sure you build it where you plan to keep it -- these things are heavy! Here is the process she follows: - Put gravel in the bottom of a large, square block plastic storage container, purchased at a hardware store.
- Add a layer of sand and push it around until it looks like the floor of a pond with a few hills and valleys.
- Start adding potted water plants, grouping them with the taller ones to the side and setting smaller plants on bricks so the pot's rim is up higher. Around 70 percent of the surface of the water garden should be covered with plants to prevent algae growth.
- Add a few inches of water to create a pond effect, but without getting the water higher than the rims of the pots.
- Add a few fish, after letting them acclimate in a container of water floating in the garden water. When the fish's water is the same temperature as the water garden water, let 'em go.
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