My afternoon challenge: Build a dry creek bed.

[combatwombat]

Howdy friends. So damn busy lately. No pond updates other than I quit paying attention for a a bit and one of my unfinished edges got low and emptied the cistern. Damn it.

Anyway, yesterday I challenged myself to build a dry creek bed to move water away from the house where our rain chain falls at the front door. Used a piece of scrap liner as a bib liner and went to town with the pile of small boulders and gravel I still have laying around. Here's what I came up with. Still slightly unfinished until I pour concrete behind it for the new walkway.

 

[Stephen Noble]

Nice project! I made a dry creek bed in our last home, and it was really nice. Great pics! Please keep us updated as the project progresses.

 

[JRS]

Very nice. I need to build something similar by a downspout but flush with the grade so my mower can pass over.

 

[YShahar]

Looks great! I'm building something similar for the overflow from the pond. I hope it comes out looking as nice as yours does!

 

[bagsmom]

This looks so good! Very natural!

 

[addy1]

Very nice!

 

[GBBUDD]

nice work No string of pearls there

 

[j.w]

Nicely done CW

 

[Jhn]

Looking good

 

[rubyduby]

This is so cool! What a great job cw!

 

[GBBUDD]

Wondering if you rubbed some moss on the chain if it would turn into a moss ring. With as much rain as you get out there it could be interesting

 

[combatwombat]

I don’t know what a miss ring is, but I have a pile of moss in the side yard that I scraped off of some concrete over a year ago that is just sitting out and still perfectly alive.

 

[Lisak1]

I think he means a "moss rain chain". Grow moss down the chain that gets watered by the rain. I think the success of that plan would depend on how fast the rain flows down the chain.

 

[combatwombat]

I think he means a "moss rain chain". Grow moss down the chain that gets watered by the rain. I think the success of that plan would depend on how fast the rain flows down the chain.

Ah, got it. That would be awesome. Chain material might be too slick and water flow too rough, but worth a shot.

 

[j.w]

Ah, got it. That would be awesome. Chain material might be too slick and water flow too rough, but worth a shot.

I think it would only stay on there when it rains and during the dry times it would all die. I mean we do have a lot of rain but we do have dry times here too.