Go for it RD - your plants will be far more interesting and colourful than lawn. I have an area of lawn which I am itching to get borders dug into - had hoped to make a start last year but it never stopped raining.
That's what I thought? But the lawn in total at the back is only about 9ftx 11ft so I have to be careful not to make it look too out if proportion!!! Everything is just looking so sad! It's heavy clay too and want to improve it but can't add more because if I pick up the height too much then it will sit on and rot my fence! But how do I improve the soil when I have plants in!
My dog loves the garden but my biggest issue is inky would rather run on my plants and Pee there than on the lawn. I have had to put sticks and wire up at about a foot and a foot and a half tall to keep her off. But at every opportunity she will hop over the wall and in to the garden rather than the lawn!!!
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Go for it RD - your plants will be far more interesting and colourful than lawn. I have an area of lawn which I am itching to get borders dug into - had hoped to make a start last year but it never stopped raining.
If you cut back into the lawn a bit at a time OH won't notice RD
In the sticks near Peterborough
Good plan Nutcutlet
Do you really need a lawn?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.