Thanks for the ideas people. I'm starting to collect stuff...
I scored a big, used, good-quality plastic kid's bath. I envision sanding the heck out of it, burying it (level) and coating it with clay/bentonite/whatever's cheap and available and letting it dry. Or trying to: we are getting a
lot of rain!
The bath won't leak, but I need an interior surface that's friendly to life and makes it look a bit less like a plastic bath...
How do people
feed water into their ponds? I'm a novice with this stuff, but here's my initial plan: have a permanent, camouflaged hose leading into the pond, that can be telescoped into my rain barrel overflow hose, then disconnected and the overflow hose directed elswhere. Make sense?
I'm totally fine with a bit of pond overflow: while having a tiny wetland would be cool, in my sand, any extra water just disappears.
Could running water in/over like that damage the plants/ tadpoles etc? It's from really minimal head, so there'll be very little water-pressure
I don't know much about water/gravity, but if the 'open' end of the hose is higher than the pond end, the water's not going anywhere, right?
Jeanine, I'd love pictures of your tiny pond