Re-Do garden

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So i just bought new house and the garden is currently a tip. Doing a extension at present and the ground level of house to garden ground level is 1.5m!!!! so bit of a steps before you reach garden

I am thinking to do decking later on but wanted to know how i can eliminate all growth in garden.
one of my builder told me, i need to dig whole garden, then concrete all over then apply weed protection then sand then whatever i want, slabs, or top soil and then grass etc

is the above correct by the builder? Duno it seemed like he making extra days work to earn money lol!

 

[r896neo]

you either badly misunderstood your builder or he is a total lunatic??
It depends on what you want to do with it? The easiest thing would be strim or use a brushcutter to flatten everything to the ground then cover the lot with black landscaping fabric. This will block pretty much everything from growing.

The best thing to do is make a firm plan and decide for the long term what surfaces you want.

Paved areas should have a sub base of 4'' of compacted mot which will keep weed growth to a minimum and is a good temporary solution until you get round to finished surfaces.

Lawn areas should be dug over rotovated and turfed or seeded by late sept at the latest. As a temporary measure they can be fabric-ed over to stop weeds.