Want To Fill In A Pond

I thought this was meant to be a friendly forum?......why not just say that you think it's better to keep the sludge? I don't think I be asking for advice again.

 

Nothing wrong with a bit of mud wrestling

 

I think its better to keep the sludge.

 

Use a Stanley knife to cut out the whole liner in sections. Then the water will just drain away.
So no worries about sludge. It's a good fertilizer, particularly for acid loving plants. Then fill it in with top soil.

No offence, but I don't think it's that big a job.

 

he says its quite deep Pete, might be worth getting a long stick and see how far it goes in, don't want to end up like this in the garden

 

Morning Wise One, did you remove the liner or just left it there and back filled?

 

I had a raised pond on the patio a few years ago. It had an underlay and a liner. When I decided to make it into a flower bed I removed the water and relocated the insect life and snails. I left underlay and liner in place just cut large slashes through it and left the oxygenator weeds,pebbles, gravel and a layer of accumulated sludge in it and filled it with compost.