How to fill deep holes in the yard from removed structures
Deep holes left by concrete-anchored posts and water features require careful layering with gravel for drainage, compacted dirt, and topsoil to prevent the ground from sinking. Without proper backfilling and compaction, the soil will settle and ruin the surface, making it impossible to successfully reseed and maintain a flat lawn.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1filling with gravel, fine gravel, dirt, and top soil
- 2building a new deck
- 3adding a decorative rock pile
- 4installing a partial wooden fence with a mural
- 5creating an evergreen grove with a reading nook
- 6planting a row of trees to form a hedge
- 7carving existing bushes into a wave pattern
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“We took out our old deck and pool and now we have this big hole .. what is opinion on what to do with this”source ↗
Think_Bit3921 · r/Landscaping · 3 upvotes
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