Page 53 - Koi Net - On-Line Koi Magazine - Issue 64

Right:
The garden in 2002
before we started to
excavate.

Below:
We started digging in the
spring of 2002, as we had
no access for a digger we
had no choice but to get
digging by hand.

Finally by July 2002 I had After digging was complete, then it was time for the
dug the hole, bagged up concrete base (mixed in my cement mixer all by hand).
all the clay and carried it
to the skips, with the help The base was 9" thick and 12" thick around the edge
of Anthony who was only creating a stronger footing, with steel reinforcing mesh
around 9 years old. incorporated, this took me two days!

The blockwork took me the best part of a further 18
months, having a brief break in the winter of 2002 due
to the weather! As with everything Anthony and I seem
to do, the pond was overly complicated due to having
curved walls, meaning most of the blocks had to be cut
to different sizes to create smooth curves, even all the
sandstone coping stones were all cut, curved and
smoothed to match the walls.
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