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Overgrown garden
tab05
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Hi guys.
After main attempts to have a good garden like the rest of the neighbors, here I am turning to you guys for advise.
My garden is 90x3 meters and so overgrown with nettles, grasse and ivy roots in some parts, I need a solution to kill every greenery and start afresh, I need to build a nice decking area with a long waited barby and turfe the reste of it.
Please advise me on the best way to acheiv my goal ( or the misus) will kill me.
Many thanks ????
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Are those dimensions correct? Thats a very long thin garden.
Get the mates round for a clearance party. Bring your own fork.
With dimensions like that , a couple of runs with a good ride-on mower would be a start !
Yes, the measurements are correct(ish), i have started ploughing it last month after striming it professionaly but it has quickly turned to be a jung again, I am looking now for a strong weed killer to kill every greener, level it up, and invest in turfing it up, any advice?
tab05 "I am looking now for a strong weed killer to kill every greener..."
Please please consider other alternatives than a chemical weed killer which is dangerous for the environment (and people).
A "garden" 90 metres long and 3 metres wide sounds more like a corridor or a length or railway track than a garden.
so plough it again, no?
it took me a couple days to plough 20 or 30 square meter, because of the ivy roots it wasn't easy, by the end of the first week, the weeds started growing, I came to the conclusion that I need a strong weeds killer, by the time all greenwry dyes, I will cover the garden with plastic.
Last edited: 29 July 2017 23:19:20
Is your garden really 10'6" wide? That's very long and narrow.
Digging and ploughing and rotavating will simply make lots of lovely root cuttings and make the problem worse. Buy, hire or borrow a good strimmer and cut everything you don't want to ground level. Leave it a few weeks and then, if you must, use a systemic weedkiller on fresh green growth on a day when you will have at least 6 hours of dry sunshine so the active ingredients get taken down to the roots.
This process takes 2 weeks to work so be patient. Then you can start digging up roots the old fashioned way with a fork or spade. Leave them in sunshine to dry out so they die completely.
Be aware that decking attracts rats who make their nests below so you may want to consider solid paving or some other material for a seating area.
Turf, or even grass seed, requires a great deal of ground preparation to get a good result and is best laid or sown in spring or autumn when temperatures and rain levels are conducive to success. That gives you time to read up on soil preparation on sites such as the RHS.
Hi Obélix
Thank you very much for your advise, I will give it a go.
Could you please advise me on a good weed killer?