My Gardening hobby

[Guest]

All looking very nice John. I too am spending a lot of time in the greenhouse at the moment. The funny thing is, with our nesting blackbirds, we don't see him much, but Mrs, is always around and definitely the tamer one of the two. the moment I start digging, she's there. watching.

The same happened last year Colin, I had a female that became so tame she would come to the table while I was sitting and feed . No sign of her this year, another female is very weary and along with another male they stay well away .

He did turn up today , seemed very agitated, kept looking around even when feeding near me . Think he must have young out of the nest , as the clucking sounds are getting more frequent.

[Guest]

John,
You have a beautiful garden mate.

Thanks Paul , kind of you to say . Steve said I was to send him the brown envelope as he was your agent .:smiling3:

[Guest]

Had to buy a new pond filter pump , the old one was 7 years old and has run none stop , don't think that's bad .
New pump is in, much bigger output , far more than I need apart from the length the back flush hose is from the pump .When I fitted this one up I upgraded to pipe size to 40 mm , wow , some difference in the volume of water coming back down the return from the filter housing . Glad this one has a variable out put or the birds would be unable to have a bath as they would be swept into the pond !

[Guest]

The beast .

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[colin m]

Our energy suppliers (whoever they are at the moment) identified us as high users of electricity. We had a chat trying to work out how this was, then I mentioned the 2000 lph pond pump running 24/7. Yes she said, that's it. Expensive hobby's these pond things.

[Guest]

When you consider Colin along with the pump 90 W there is the UV clarifier 15 W , an air stone pump another 90 W all running 24 / 7 it soon mounts up .

[Lee Drennen]

Belinda gave up on her pond years ago so I told her this year I’m filling it with dirt and planting flowers I’m tired of the nasty leaves in it.

[rtfoe]

Had to buy a new pond filter pump , the old one was 7 years old and has run none stop , don't think that's bad .
New pump is in, much bigger output , far more than I need apart from the length the back flush hose is from the pump .When I fitted this one up I upgraded to pipe size to 40 mm , wow , some difference in the volume of water coming back down the return from the filter housing . Glad this one has a variable out put or the birds would be unable to have a bath as they would be swept into the pond !

I can see the birds like in those gym videos of people falling from fast treadmills. :smiling6:

Cheers,
Richard

[Tim Marlow]

When you consider Colin along with the pump 90 W there is the UV clarifier 15 W , an air stone pump another 90 W all running 24 / 7 it soon mounts up .

That’s only as much as two 100 watt light bulbs John, hardly excessive consumption, and if you’ve turned the flow rate down it will be even less. What’s the string for, by the way?

[Guest]

Morning Tim, the string is to allow me to get the pump out for cleaning and to keep it off the base of the pond. If the pump sits on the bottom there is more chance of it having Newts try to get inside, even with the reduced mesh. Not bothered really about the electric usage as our panels in this sunny period produce more than we use each week. Unfortunately not so in the winter :crying:

[Guest]

That’s only as much as two 100 watt light bulbs John, hardly excessive consumption, and if you’ve turned the flow rate down it will be even less. What’s the string for, by the way?

[Tim Marlow]

Morning Tim, the string is to allow me to get the pump out for cleaning and to keep it off the base of the pond. If the pump sits on the bottom there is more chance of it having Newts try to get inside, even with the reduced mesh. Not bothered really about the electric usage as our panels in this sunny period produce more than we use each week. Unfortunately not so in the winter :crying:

Ah, right. I just sit ours on a brick and pull it up by the outlet pipe. Weirdly it doesn’t have a filter……big outer mesh casing with nothing inside except the pump mechanism. The pump and pond came with the house so I thought the filter had been misplaced by the previous occupants. Checked on line, and that model of pump appears not to have a filter at all. Doesn’t bother the newts though, we get our share, along with plenty of other pond life :smiling5:

[colin m]

Belinda gave up on her pond years ago so I told her this year I’m filling it with dirt and planting flowers I’m tired of the nasty leaves in it.

Turn it into a bog garden.

[colin m]

When you consider Colin along with the pump 90 W there is the UV clarifier 15 W , an air stone pump another 90 W all running 24 / 7 it soon mounts up .

Indeed. I think we have similar set ups. Which reminds me, I'm off to ebay, I need new UV tubes.

[Jim R]

Hi John
Having water in a garden is real magnet for wildlife and the sound of running water is a bonus when sitting out and enjoying your hard work. I dug a pond when we lived in Scotland - took me three days and nearly killed me. We had all sorts of wiggly bugs and beetles etc and then frogs.
I'm in the middle of my "spring clean up and sort out" in the garden.
Jim