So we're gonna build a Wildlife Pond this week... Monday 10th March 2014

Yes... the old pond at the allotment was basically a water tank cut in half length ways with a few bits and pieces of junk surrounding it and full of more mud than water... While I'm all for natural spaces I'm just going to upgrade the area and try to get more wildlife to come to the allotment with an even better wildlife pond.

Environmentally unfriendly gardening and the like has seen a boost in self designed or expensive water features with a complete dis-regard for how our local wildlife friends like the frog, the toad, the newt, the dragonfly, the pond skater and the water boatmen all interact with these water spaces. We pay architects a fortune to design magnificent houses and buildings but if we spent just a little time making sure our ponds and water spaces in gardens and allotments were "grand" for the wild inhabitants we'd make better spaces and help address the worlds disappearing amphibian population along with wildlife ponds and bog areas.

This week were going to try and put a wildlife pond in the allotment ourselves and learn as we go to create a good thriving wildlife space.

As we haven't got much space I've already sourced a cheap pond from the garden centre (£20) with a layered set of levels in it (like a beach effect, to attract different species that thrive at different levels of water)

Something like this

You could use pond liner to create the same effect if you like but I've decided to save a bit time and this fits into the space perfectly for me... a decent small size pond would be about 2.5 x 1.5 metres...

and the space for the pond is here...

I'll be buying the pond this week and putting it in so keep checking the blog for more news on the pond development as we go...