Create a pocket pond in permaculture

"Explode the biodiversity of your garden by multiplying the interfaces and interactions between water, earth, and air, thanks to the life wells that are pocket ponds."



Permaculture advocates, among other things, gardening without treatments, with a logic inspired by nature: without biodiversity, there can be no possible balance.
All pest or invasion problems are understood with this logic: rather than trying to eliminate an overabundant species, it is seen as a symptom of an imbalance.
In nature, indeed, the excessive proliferation of a species always leads to that of its predators, which will moderate its expansion.
The secret of a resilient ecosystem is its biodiversity. The more species present, the lower the risk that one of them will dominate in an aberrant way.
The environments richest in biodiversity are the "interfaces."
For example, a forest edge, the bank of a pond are interfaces between two environments and are peaks of biodiversity.
"If you feel like it, you can insert 'pocket ponds' into your vegetable garden. Simple buried plastic bins, or even just a tarp lining a hole, will serve as micro-ponds that will increase the resilience of the ecosystem."
"Some aquatic creatures, some floating or non-floating plants, and these water holes will quickly teem with life for the greatest benefit of the surrounding vegetable garden."
"The atmosphere will be less dry, the temperature fluctuations less severe, water will attract myriads of useful insects... Just plan to plunge a board in it to prevent a small animal that might fall in from drowning."
"No need to empty them in winter; the critters will settle in year-round and their numbers will explode in spring, just like in nature."
The plants that will become invasive there will be harvested and spread at the base of your vegetables, forming a rich, moist mulch with no risk of regrowth.
Not to mention that, coming from your rainwater collector, the rainwater will be stored as close as possible to your plants!

To seed your pocket ponds, our starter doses contain everything you need: invertebrates, animal and plant plankton, germinating paddy rice, etc.
"Once seeded with this biodiversity, your pond will live its life, bringing all the benefits of a true little body of water around it..."