Low Tide on the Pond!!

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We took advantage of the long dry spell to have the pond cleaned and all the weed removed.
A contractor with a digger tidied up all around the edges and took out some six truck loads of soil/mud. This was tipped on the adjacent paddock until it was removed with tractor/front-end loader and wheel-barrow.
It took eighty barrow loads to move it and this was all taken to the vegetable garden. This should make a big difference to the fertility of the garden as it was mostly clay previously. Although the pond is low (not really tidal!!) it has still about two metres depth in some places. The boat came in very useful to travel across the pond removing all the pond weed. This took several half-days!! (George got too tired to do longer shifts!)

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Photos

Look how dry the hills are -
when is the rain coming ?

Where has all the water gone!!
After many weeks without significant rain the pond has dropped about a metre!!

The boat ...
came in very useful in cleaning out the weed. (but what a job - very uncomfortable lifting out the wet weed and sharing the boat with it!!!!

Looks calm now
but gets quite a chop when the wind blows. Hooray for the sea-sick tablets!

This is where the truck ...
tipped the sludge from the pond. When it dried out we took it to the garden by tractor part-way . Then by wheel-barrow - what a job !!

Comments

[Amy, Mike and Rylee]

Wow!
That sounds like hard work :P bet it looks great now you need some rain to refill it! Grandads veges will be very happy with the new soil :)

[McHearns]

What's that ... ?
Rain, Amy ? What's that ? WE missed out again today!!

[sue obrien]

What hard work
Well done though, I am sure the veges are growing like mad now.