When we moved into our house we filled in the pond as I was worried about our very small children falling in. The pond is one half of the patio which joins the back of our house.
The pond was concrete lined so we tried to break up the concrete to make some drainage and filled it with soil with the aim of making a flower bed. However, nothing at all grows in there and it just looks really tatty and yukky. The soil is too wet and seems to be filled with creepy crawlies that think there should still be a pond there.
In an ideal world we would have the whole patio redone including over the pone as it really needs it. However, we can't afford it at all, not for a few years at least. So please please please does anybody have any ideas what we can do? Are there any plants that might grow in bug filled wet soil in a slightly shady place? Or is there anything we could do to cover the area up that would like neat and tidy and not be too expensive. I'm getting desperate!