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Urban Sustainable Living is published by Patti Moreno the Garden Girl. She started gardening in 1998, as a way to not only eat healthier, but also to lose the weight that she had gained during her recent pregnancy. Her frequent shopping trips to the gardening supply aisles of a local home improvement warehouse earned her the nickname Garden Girl from one of the stores sales associates. After much trial and error, Patti was able to transform the backyard of her Boston home into an in-town garden that now produces almost all of the food her family eats. Her farmette has become a focal point within her inner-city community, a place where she shares her knowledge and passion for a concept she calls Urban Sustainable Living with hundreds of her neighbors, young and old alike. Patti's success serves to encourage both city-dwellers and suburbanites to take full advantage of their decks, patios, balconies, rooftops, even indoor bookshelves and turn them into sustainable gardens

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Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, installs a pond inside a raised bed in her garden....

Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, installs a pond inside a raised bed in her garden. For more info: www.gardengirltv.com or www.urbansustainableliving.com Distributed by Tubemogul.

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Building a Raised Bed Water Garden

The major construction proportion of my side yard garden is complete and now I can really bring my garden to life by installing a water feature. I am using easy to find material readily available at your local building supply. Earlier, I filled this raised bed about half way with stone dust left over from my paving project. Now, I dig a hole for the bottom of the pond. Once I get the pond liner stable and level I can add in the soil which I back filled tightly around the pond liner. Next, I placed some Pennsylvania filled stone around the edge to give it a more natural look. Now I am going to set up a pump and my filter system for my pond. I will just have a little pump here, it is a little fountain pump. I just need something to circulate the water. This is going to circulate between 40 and 80 gallons per hour so it is perfect for this size. Now, for my tubing, I am going to need to clamp it on. So, I have got these little clamps that already has the screw drilled in as you turn it, it gets tighter. So I am just going to put it on this, I am going to take the screw driver and screw it tightly. I put in about one to two inches of gravel on the bottom of the pot and I am going to now take the pump and place it in there. I am going to make it kind of long for right now. Now, I am going to finish filling the pot with gravel, I have the other end of the rubber hose and I am going to put the clamp on it and put that on this little foggy here. This little foggy is going to set it right here. So I have got my pump in my little filter system which is just a pot with gravel in it and then I have my little frog here that is going to spit out the nice clean water into the pond. All I have to do now is to fill up my pond. For this project I have sweet potato vine, mint, acacia the toothache plant, some blue fescue, yarrow, etosha bush and a clematis plant. I also have a variety of water irises for the pond. So, get to the store and buy your pond and start drawing your plants for you water feature today. I am Patty Moreno the garden girl thanks for watching.

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The major construction proportion of my side yard garden is complete and now I can really bring my garden to life by installing a water feature. I am using easy to find material readily available at your local building supply. Earlier, I filled this raised bed about half way with stone dust left over from my paving project.

Now, I dig a hole for the bottom of the pond. Once I get the pond liner stable and level I can add in the soil which I back filled tightly around the pond liner. Next, I placed some Pennsylvania filled stone around the edge to give it a more natural look. Now I am going to set up a pump and my filter system for my pond. I will just have a little pump here, it is a little fountain pump. I just need something to circulate the water. This is going to circulate between 40 and 80 gallons per hour so it is perfect for this size.

Now, for my tubing, I am going to need to clamp it on. So, I have got these little clamps that already has the screw drilled in as you turn it, it gets tighter. So I am just going to put it on this, I am going to take the screw driver and screw it tightly.

I put in about one to two inches of gravel on the bottom of the pot and I am going to now take the pump and place it in there. I am going to make it kind of long for right now. Now, I am going to finish filling the pot with gravel, I have the other end of the rubber hose and I am going to put the clamp on it and put that on this little foggy here. This little foggy is going to set it right here.

So I have got my pump in my little filter system which is just a pot with gravel in it and then I have my little frog here that is going to spit out the nice clean water into the pond. All I have to do now is to fill up my pond.

For this project I have sweet potato vine, mint, acacia the toothache plant, some blue fescue, yarrow, etosha bush and a clematis plant. I also have a variety of water irises for the pond. So, get to the store and buy your pond and start drawing your plants for you water feature today. I am Patty Moreno the garden girl thanks for watching.

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