Help ! Gardening nightmare !

oh yes bring on the cheese and prosecco!

 

That's strange ! I tried to quote @martin-f in this thread and it changed to a "conversation" , no idea where my post has gone?!

 

I hope you know @SunWorshiper they start going mad about who's got it the cheapest

 

Its ok you sent me a PM use the Quote button ,

Its a cheap/easy way of getting rid, my garden was worse than yours no fence to the right and like a wood after 7/9 big fires i got it cleared, then started work,

You have the bare bones already you will soon get it looking nice again .

 

I'm afraid I'm still fighting the brambles in my garden @SunWorshiper , though on a much smaller scale to when I first started! I dug up as much as I could in the beginning, but a year on I'm still regularly finding new shoots sneaking through - there's a large bush in the neighbouring garden which I think is the main source. I use a combination of "paint on" weedkiller, which you put on the leaves of the specific plants you want to kill, and repeatedly pulling up or cutting down any shoots that spring up.

My garden had been negleced for at least 3-4 years when we moved in - this is last February:


And this was a few weeks later, early April:



Obviously a much smaller space than you have, but probably similar to one of your sections, if you do it bit by bit.

 

I'm late coming to this thread, @SunWorshiper . There is plenty of good advice already and I'm glad you have decided not to make it all lawn. I once lived in a terraced house with a very long thin garden of only about 4m wide by 50m long so I appreciate what has already been done. When I first began gardening in this garden it was all vegetables with a few fruit trees and quite open. We divided it up into sections as your previous owners did and never regretted it at all; flowers and shrubs near the house, then lawn, fruit trees and then a veg garden at the end with hedges down both sides and part fence too. It's the way to go with a long thin garden.

 

I started of with one big lawn i seeded it this was its first cut,


I was so pleased when i got to this stage but couldn't stop i had the bug, i now have a few little sections and i find it much better, as @Verdun mentioned its like having different rooms that you can transform into what you want .

 

Looks great doesnt it Martin?

 

I can only reiterate what others have already said. I would keep it in sections, and maybe introduce different themes in each. When I did my last garden, it was a right mess, but luckily not too much deep rooted plants to clear. For me, veg production was a priority, so around 60ft of the 200ft was set aside for this. Once I’d built the raised beds, I didn’t find it high maintenance, but obviously in spring, when it comes to planting and sowing, requires a bit of time. Not a good picture, but this gives some idea...


Since I’m not willing to pay for Photobucket, I’m only able to add some screenshots, so here are just a few pics of the garden at different stages of development, and in no particular order...



I tried to find a pic of what I started with, but as yet no luck. I tried to concentrate on one area at a time, doing a little and often. It was actually quite easy, over time. Once under control, I didn’t find it high maintenance at all.
I hope this helps, just a little.

 

Blimey Freddy.....you worked hard there. Amazing transformation
Share your passion for growing veg (and fruit) too

 

To the OP.
It might be useful to invest in a shredder. I found it very useful when it came to getting rid of the bramble waste. It would also be useful for woody prunings from some of the trees and shrubs.

You don’t know the half of it. I had to shift tons of earth and rubble, all by hand
Worth it in the end though

 

Hi @2nd_bassoon you have worked hard there...we had the same issue with ours besides fruits..i bet we had 3 skips to shift the rubbish from here but just look at how your garden looks totally different...a job well done

 

These two are stunning @Freddy ...even though ours is slabbed and gravelled...I find other gardens enlightening and enchanting to see and how you imagination as had you establish this, it's lovely to view

 

A few more...



I think that what I’m trying to illustrate, is that with doing a little and often, it’s surprising how much can be done. I did this from scratch, so to my mind the OP already has the ‘bones’ in place.

 

@Freddy look at how matured your plants are and to buy them from a nursery it would cost the earth and like you say working on them little and often it does you credit.