Help on tidying up garden

Ash_Mc

A budget solution would be to dig it over, rake the soil out to fill on the gap and sow grass seed on it to take your lawn right up to the house.

chib

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

OK, that makes it a lot clearer.

Being very careful to not fall down the slope, I'd cut a narrow/shallow trench at the point I wanted the grass to start with a narrow spade. I'd water it for a good long time first to try and make it easier. And then use the spoil from that to even up any dips in the ground that is sort of flat under the windows.

And then I'd stick in a layer of sand, tamp it down firmly, then lay bog standard bricks, including secondhand ones that look weathered, to make a small path alongside the new flowerbed, brushing some more sand over them when I finished. There are fancier ways to do it, for example, laying hardcore, adding mortar or buying a path-on-a-strip, but I'm thinking cheap, effective and quick - plus easy to replace when money's not so tight.

I'm sorry - I don't fully understand. Promise you I'm not stupid, just want to ensure I get it.

Last night I cleared a lot of the weeds you can see in the recent photo and I've put down the black fabric at the top/flat part to reduce any more that come through.

This is a profile of the garden - you can see the grass slope and where the layers of dirt are. It's the section "2" and where it ramps up to "3" that I'm not sure what to do? The black line is where I've laid fabric.

spadoosh

In section two i would put paving slabs so you have easy access for any maintenance. As you go between 2 and 3 have a small wall to hold back and keep tidy the soil/stones.

Saying that im not sure how well it would fir with the existing path set up.