That purple square is where I’ll have the pump set up on a milk crate, it will draw the water to the lowest area for mulm to accumulate, so I can remove it easily. The pond is dig out in steps, some collapsed, and I put in a “ critter slide” going the wrong way, I should have put it facing away from the house. There’s currently a fence to keep puppies wrangled about 2 ft from that edge. That fence will be moved to go around the concrete slab and pond area once we are all done with puppies. ( please dear god, let these be the last puppies!) That should prevent the dogs from using my pond as their rinse off play area/ tearing things up, mucking it up, possibly carrying things from the stream or river into the pond. And once I set up the netting, I hope to keep cats out of it too. I need to figure out how to acquire the netting I’ll need, and set it up. My current thoughts are use mesh fabric this spring for the pond, set up a few feet from the surface, and sloped so the maple seeds can slide off. Then once the bog is dug, I’ll need to get something stronger, and set it up to keep leaves out. Sadly, this is the one area I know it would take record breaking, vehicle damaging flood levels to get to the pond, but there’s a big maple hanging over it, thus seeds, leaves, and shade. Which means I’ll have to pick shade tolerant plants for the bog. And I’ll have to do some serious landscaping around it.
