Water Gardening: can I put soil in the pond over my liner? , 0 by bobgoestodaves

bobgoestodaves wrote:
If you put soil in your pond it will be a big mistake. It would get inot your filter and pump. it would make cleaning the pond impossible. If you have cat tails they will take over the whole pond. we put our cat tails in a really big pail from home depot and just keep them where they are. our llies are in pots we just leave them in the same place winter and summer. we drain our pond once a year and vacuum out all of the sludge and fish dump. and leaves . but we leave all the pots in the pond. we catch the fish and put them in a blow up children s pool. it take us a few hours and then we are done. we get out so much sludge by the buckest full. we put that in our compost. We sweep it up with a dust broom.
If you do put dirt in and then decide to take it out it will be so hard , next to impossible. I have never heard of any one doing that, if you go to the local library you can get out many books on ponds. Many... we read about 15 books on ponds before we decided to build ours. they may give you ideas.
Hope this helps you ...
Elaine