Options / cost for redoing a garden

SunnyCat

Looking at buying a house with a garden covered with shale rock - has been this way when the current owner of 10 years has bought it. I'd like to get rid of that and have grass, plus some flower beds / little vegetable patch. What would need to happen and what sort of a cost are we talking?
I am assuming there are a few parts to this - get the shale out, remove top soil (or not needed?). Do I need new soil? Only for flowerbeds/veggie patch or grass too? Anything I hadn't thought of?

tori.k

Could be as easy as raking off the stone lifting the mypex weed fabric and mixing in some humus rich topsoil and then seeding or turfing a lawn, If your not wanting the stone cheapest way would be to offer it free to someone as long as they come remove it.
Flip side if they have done a proper job and laid Mot sub base gravel it could be a big excavating job

SunnyCat

Tori.k thank you for a useful and comprehensive response! I hadn't even thought someone could want the stone - that is indeed a handy way to get rid of it.

getmore4less

Why miss off the two crucial bits of information?

Size and access?

DCFC79

SunnyCat wrote: »

Tori.k thank you for a useful and comprehensive response! I hadn't even thought someone could want the stone - that is indeed a handy way to get rid of it.

Yeh Im sure you can find someone who would remove the stone and take it away.