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Subject:Re: Filling in the Garden Pond
Date:Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:21:23 GMT
From:"Bill" <me@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups:uk.d-i-y,uk.rec.gardening,alt.garden.pond.chat
If you leave the liner in it will become a bog garden
"JP" <noone@noone.com> wrote in message 
news:4308a14e$0$17502$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net...
> I'm going to fill in my 3,000 gl pond. I wondered if anyone has got any 
> tips for this.
> I'm going to be renting my house out shortly and don't want any potential 
> tennants being put off by the pond.
> Plus it's a lot of effort feeding fish, cleaning filter, cutting back 
> plants etc etc
> I'd like a solution that is cheap and might one day be reversible.
>
> At the moment I've thinking to keep the pond liner, get some non rottable 
> plastic bags, and fill these with sand bought in bulk from local building 
> merchants. Put these in the empty pond and top if off with topsoil for a 
> plant bed, not sure if it would be a dry bed or a bog garden.
>
> Any other ideas or tips?
> Thanks
>