Pond

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

The romance of the word "pond" originates in early childhood, when a mother reads to her child about the amusing and touching adventures of a careless and naive wooden man with a long nose. Under the quiet and gentle voice of my mother, the imagination draws the calm surface of an old pond, covered with greenish mud. Not scary frogs croaking at all, led by a kind three-hundred-year-old turtle; wide leaves of water lilies slightly sway from the light breeze created by the transparent wings of huge dragonflies looking for food in the water

It's nice if your summer cottage is located not far from such a fabulous pond. If nature has given you its other beauties: hills covered with pines and cedars; a narrow and fast mountain river with clear cold water and talkative rolls; deciduous forest with boletus, boletus and boletus, then the tale of your childhood can be reproduced with your own hands on your territory.

Always be young

If a child living in the soul of every adult periodically reminds of himself, then the construction of a small pond in the country will not cause much difficulty. Children will be happy to take an active part in the event (the purchase of a summer residence, in most cases, involves the presence of children in the family).

We carry out an inventory in the barn that stores the tools, and we buy the missing bayonet shovels. On the way to the dacha, we closely follow the roadside and pick up large pebbles. If not far from the dacha there is a river with banks of smoothly rounded boulders, armed with buckets, a wheelbarrow or a stretcher, we go hunting for stones with a friendly, cheerful gang. Whoever finds the most beautiful stone is rewarded. So, the hard part of the work can be turned into a gambling and fun game. After all, the dacha was acquired not in order to extend an already long working day, but to recharge with energy and joy for the upcoming working week, to acquaint children with the nature of their native land, to awaken in them a love for nature and care for it.

Pond arrangement and appetite

Laying polyethylene in a dug pit, placing stones to strengthen the film and decorating the pond, pouring water into it will turn into an exciting action. And at this time, mom will prepare a delicious and hearty lunch (dinner), which the children have never tasted better. After all, creative work is the best appetite stimulant.

Strengthening Childhood Attachment

Where, if not in the country, to strengthen the child's natural attachment to his parents. Joint work unites, gives rise to creativity, leaves no time for acquiring bad habits. By entrusting the child with the work that is feasible for him, directing and correcting, encouraging results, adults strengthen children's confidence in themselves. In such a family there is no place for mutual reproaches and misunderstandings, for centuries of conflict between parents and children. As they say, with one shot of three birds with one stone:

1. A ready-made pond in your own backyard.

2. Strengthening the child's attachment to the parents.

3. Excellent appetite - a guarantee of health.

Dragged on by brown mud

But there is no need to allow brown mud into your pond. It is better to decorate it with white water lilies growing in the area; telescopes resembling an aloe houseplant and half submerged in water; watercolors with floating rounded leaves and rather large white flowers; yellow irises.

For natural filtration of water in the pond, launch tadpoles into it; to put frogs in it for evening "concerts"; but you can try to breed carp or something smaller.

Plant the usual and dear forget-me-nots on the banks of the pond; plakun-grass, growing up to two meters in height, decorated with purple flowers and sometimes "crying" from the excess of feelings and moisture in the leaves; and much more at the discretion of adults and children.

And do not forget to build a bench-bench from natural materials at hand.