Pond water

Hi - I'm going to be removing a small pond (1 year old baby) from my garden and wondered if the water could be put onto my lawn or shrubs? The pond is healthy with strong plants, lots of duck weed and many frogs.

Thanks, Nick

 

A healthy pond is usually Ph neutral.
But it can be a bit acidic, due to the excretion of frogs, fish, hippos.. (no not hippos) and the addition of rainfall etc., and the plants in it may not neutralize it all.
But unless it has the consistency of brown Windsor soup, it shouldn't do your plants any harm. In fact I use the dregs from the bottom of my koi pool sump each week when I purge the drain, on my azaleas and rhodos, which like a slightly acid soil.
Scatter it around your flower beds and I don't think they will come to any harm, favouring the plants that prefer acidic soil conditions.

I think you're wise doing it now. Water is a magnet for small kids and you can't watch them all the time.

 

I am just about to remove our pond because of grandchildren but rather than bale out I am just going to take the grape over the liner, let it drain and let the frogs find their way to the local reservoir.