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Filling in a Small Pond
dfish01
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Would like some advice please, I've recently drained a small pond in my garden & filled up the hole with rubble to about 6 inches from the top. Would it be ok to just fill it up to the top with soil and then plant some plants in it? The area around it can get boggy due to two small inclines in the garden running off in that direction.
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Was this a lined pond plastic or clay. Does the area around always get boggy or just when you had the pond. If it was a lined pond the water may drain naturally once the liner is removed.
If it is a real damp part of the garden you could have a bog garden good for wild life and in that case you would be able to plant bog loving things in it. If that is not what you want then you need look at draining, that can just mean digging a large hole filling the bottom with gravel and see what difference that makes otherwise it will need a proper drainage system.
Frank.
The pond has already been drained and is now full of rubble to about 6 inches from the top, would it be ok to just fill up with soil & then put plants in?
It's a naturally damp part of the garden due to the inclines in the garden, was thinking about turning it into a bog garden, any advice with that would be appreciated.
Its one of those imponderables. Whatever you plan to do, Mother Nature will have other ideas. The rubble will act as drainage so your idea for a bog garden might not work. I suppose it all depends on how damp that part of the garden really is. Fill in the rest of the hole with soil and keep an eye on it over winter to see how damp it stays compared with the less soggy parts of your plot. Decide on what to plant after that.
Six inches of topsoil isn't a lot for plants to get their roots into.
Also, as rain washes that soil into the rubble below, the topsoil will be less and less - I think you have too much rubble in there and the infilling needs to be more carefully thought out - depending on the plants you want to grow there.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dfish you said you drained the pond but have you put holes in the bottom of the old pond even for a bog garden you could end up with a bed of mud, I'd put in some rubble but like Dove said the more soil the better.
Thankyou for the advice.
Think I'll remove some of the rubble & add a bit more soil than originally planned.