Pondscape.us - Fall 2009 - All The Friggen Morning Glories
Channel: pondscape
Date: 21/01/2010

A surrounding garden is key to a successful pond, though we do not limit our videos to the garden directly around the pond. We love gardening as much as we enjoy fish and ponds, so we take video of our garden in its entirety. 

We recycle as much as possible. By this I do not mean pop cans and plastic bottles. We bury and / or burn yard waste (and bury the ashes in the garden). We also burn non-toxic paper junk mail and office shreddings, as well as the abundance of bush and tree branches.

We sprinkle grass clippings into our garden. We bury the leaves that drop in the fall so that the worms can turn them into new dirt. We bury the litter from the cat boxes so that the litter can store water as a temporary reservoir and the fecal mater can be processed by the worms into new fresh soil.  

Also note: if you are going to bury anything like this, make sure the hole you dig is at least 2 feet deep! Also note that if you are going to burn anything -- make sure you have a legal, safe, contained fire pit and make sure you are burning only organic non-toxic wastes. Do not burn plastics, man made chemicals or anything dangerous.

Most people throw all of this natural waste away not realizing that it harms the Earth turning to methane in a land fill and that they sabotage their land by removing the nutrients from it! 

Nature recycles the dead leaves, grass and other plant materials through the decomposition process to keep the land fertile and healthy. When you throw this stuff away, you are constantly removing fertility from the land and its not very smart!!!