Removing a lawn and starting again
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Hi all,
My wife and I bought our house about 4 years ago and the garden was a jungle so we just decided to clear it and keep the grass as short as possible for minimum maintenance whilst we did up the house.
However, this has proven not to be such a good idea as now we are left with a very bumpy lawn, which consists mainly of moss and weeds!
We'd like the lawn to be nice and flat and I was wondering if anyone has any tips on how best to approach this? The lawn area is about 25 feet wide and 100 feet long.
I was thinking of using a Rotavator to churn up the ground, then levelling with a rake/spade, flattening it again with a roller and then reseeding. However, would the existing grass, moss and weeds still come through? Do I need to kill all this somehow and start over again? How would I go about removing/killing such a large area of grass?
Thanks in advance.
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We had a lawn of almost exactly the dimensions of yours, with similar problems. I wasn't up to doing it myself so got somebody in to do it. They did rotovate the whole area - 3 times. Up and down, across and then up and down again to break the soil and grass up really well. Thoroughly levelled and firmed and then turfed. That was done in June, far from an ideal time but we kept it well watered and everything is good now.
Turfing is obviously dearer than seeding but the practicalities of getting round the garden if it was all seeded made it a no-brainer for us.