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Level - Top Soil - compost - decorative

singhsurveysinghsurvey Posts: 2
in Garden design
Hi greenthumbs. Any help or advice appreciated. 

The left border of my garden that meets my garden wall is slightly sloped, shaded and subject to moss. I lifted some of the mossy turf and damp soil out last year with the intention to replace and level it and lay some decorative stones/gravel. FYI My garden also has a natural slope away from my house but that’s for another day. 

In order to do as planned for the left border, to make it level up with the rest of the garden, would topsoil and compost be a good option? Would I need to compact it and then lay a membrane and stones Or am I missing something ? 

Thanks in advance 

 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hi @singhsurvey and welcome to the forum 😊 

    I can’t really visualise the situation ... could you post some photos for us please? 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Top soil, weed membrane, edcorative stones.  You should be fine. 👍

    Survey - Thats an unusual name, whats the story behind that?
  • singhsurveysinghsurvey Posts: 2
    JoeX said:
    Top soil, weed membrane, edcorative stones.  You should be fine. 👍

    Survey - Thats an unusual name, whats the story behind that?
    Oh it was ‘predictive text’ when I registered, I hadn’t seen it until afterwards hah. 

    Thanks for the advice, I now need to find somewhere that has stones in stock. 
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    You can changebit on the GW website, profile, settings, if you want :smile:
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