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New Garden - complete overhaul help!
Beccalina
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Hello 
I have recently bought my first house (eek!)
It comes with a small enclosed back garden, that I could barely call that when I moved in really. The house was empty for good 6 months over winter but looks neglected for a long while anyway.
It's is now one big piece of nettles, weeds, the odd stem of grass and rubbish underneath.
I've decided the best thing to completely get rid of it all and think I'm going to slate the main part and then get some greenery in the form of pots maybe.
Can anyone give me any tips for removing down to clean soil and slating please?
Thanks
Becky
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Best thing you can do is get it all strimmed down right now. Apply a glyphosate based weed killer and let that work for a few weeks. You won't get the best out of the weed killer as it's late in the season, but for now its the best option. personally I'd then wait till spring when the weeds are just coming up and then tackle it again with weed killer. If you try and put down membrane, even top quality landscaping membrane, down now, weeds will come through next spring and I've seen nettle lift membrane before and it's a hell of a job to get it out.
In spring spray at two weekly intervals for a month, leave a further two weeks and only then can you really think of laying a membrane and putting slate chips on top.
It may not be what you want right now, but in my experience it's worth the wait. Impatience can cost money in the long run.