Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations floating turtle island

Eric,
Went shopping today and found all of the supplies you listed, one question, the 'bio mesh' material at the local Depot is a green straw like matting, do the seeds sprout in the mesh alone without soil or peat moss or am I looking at the wrong stuff?

PaPond, I am trying to remember if the mesh was green or tan, but it was a fairly dense fiber. I laid it across the fabric many times in multiple directions to build up the structure to the height I wanted it to be. Thus I matted the structure down more. Remember as the water hits it and as it starts to decay a bit the structure will collapse in on itself a bit and it will not be as fluffy. SOrt of like an old pillow. Thus add more height and structure than you think you will need ( that is the tricky part ) because you will want some part of your structure to remain dry at all times. Other parts can have pools or puddles even in the island ( the frogs and turtles love that ) Thus long story short, I was able to just sprinkle the seeds into it. It actually helped that some of the seeds were faily far down into the structure. I did not use any peat moss or anyother soil to help start it. you could I guess but I didn't. On my second year I took some of the leaves that fell into the pond and placed themon the island and used that as starter for spots in the island that were not growing as much grass as I would have liked.

As you build this please keep me informed how its going. The hardest part I had was sewing the pocket to place the noodles through. Good luck!!