Before I show you this, I'll say I am so not a gardener! I've been in my home two years, and it's now time to do the backyard! I started off with a pile of weeds - which with some help was actually cleared last October. I did nothing with it so they all grew back. This time around, I was on my own to fix it up again.
I ripped it all out and started leveling it out a bit. I did all this last weekend, and for the first three days of this week I could barely walk! Not looking forward to the next couple of days now.
Then yesterday I turned it all over along with a bit of dynamic lifter (my neighbours must love me) and got it reasonably flat. The rain didn't help at this point as it got a little bit muddy.
Then a beautiful pile of turf underlay arrived at the ungodly hour of 7am (on a public holiday no less!) ready to be moved out the back. After about 40 trips with my little barrow, we were ready to level and screed. Fortunately my parents had kindly offered to help, so I wasn't on my own for this one. Dad and I got to work getting it all looking gorgeous.
Once it was all flat we got to work rolling out the turf, and here is the finished result! I've never done anything like this so I'm a little bit proud of my gardening efforts. Next job is to plant out that side garden, I'm thinking camellias and David Austin roses.
