The 9 tons of Decomposed Granite have arrived. It didn’t look as large as the 7 yards of top soil I ordered years ago. I was afraid it would not be enough.
We started shoveling and filling in the path next to the stream. Once we got down to the lower pond, I had some more excavation to do. I decided to put a ring of keystone bricks around the redwoods. I wanted to make it look more pleasing to the eye.
After this, I started clearing all the weeds from the far side of the pond, they were growing too well without water so it was time to investigate. I found two places where the liner was below water. I pulled the liner back up and then noticed some very wet dirt next to the fence. I found the pipe for the pond to be seeping water. When I lifted it, the water started spraying out. I noticed a cut in the pipe. It’s my guess that it’s been there since the beginning and they never did a leak test on the pipe before burying it in the ground. Unfortunately, the people at Lowe’s had no clue on how to fix it and didn’t have any 2″ couplers. I had to turn off the pond and wait until Monday to get the right parts.
We started to clear the extra debris and dirt away from the pump and shed. We need to remove about 3″ of dirt. All of this material will be used as fill for the herb garden area. This turned out to be harder than we planned, as we started working on this after moving all the extra keystone bricks. Angie and I were both pretty tired.
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We ultimately moved about 1/2 of the DG. I am sure we will have plenty (maybe too much). If so, I will ring the other redwood tree and lay the DG down on the ground as a road bed for the track that goes around the tree.