feeling overwhelmed with my garden renovation !

Starting to renovate my garden and have very little gardening experience. It's quite a big job and each time I sit down to try and draw some kind of plan I get very overwhelmed at the task in hand . I'll upload pics of my progress along the way, and any help/advice will be greatly appreciated

 

Oh bless you, I'm sorry you are feeling overwhelmed, the best thing to do is a section at a time, you don't need to do it all at once, once you get one section clear & sorted you will see a breakthrough that will help you feel much better about the whole project. When we moved into our house the house & garden were the pits, I didn't know what to do first so I broke it down into sections & that certainly helped me. Hang on in there & you will get there.
I'd love to see your photos when you have time

 

Here are a few, I'll post more in a separate post

 

Here's some more pics as it is now. I've got a friend helping clear some rubbish this wknd and then I can start deciding where I want things planting. The whole garden is uneven mainly due to the massive tree stump in the centre of the garden. The compost bin looks like it's right in the middle of the garden but it's quite near the back on a flat piece of lawn.

 

You'll be surprised in the difference after the weekend GN You'll be able to get a better picture of how you can plan things when you've got rid of the died down foliage and cleared it.It's going to be a smashing garden by the time you've finished

 

There is a lot of work there garden-newbie and there seems to be very little that's worth keeping. If the hard graft worries you then consider hiring a man and mini digger to skim off the surface, take out the stump and any other plants you don't want to keep and then level the ground.

 

Hi Garden Newbie, thanks for sharing the photos, you are going to have a fantastic garden, it looks like a good size. I can understand why you are feeling overwhelmed, but honestly as Loli says you will notice a big difference after this weekend, I'm pleased to hear you have a friend coming to help you.
Id also recommend getting a skip, it will save you a lot of time going backwards & forwards to the tip.
Once you have cleared all the grass, got rid of the things you don't want & cleared up all of last years growth I think you are going to feel much better about the whole thing...I wish I was closer to so I could help. Good luck my friend & please let us know how you get on, I can't wait to see some more photos after this weekend .

 

Haven't any more to add to all the excellent ideas above at the moment g-n other than to say bon courage and please keep us posted as you go along. We're all rooting for you

 

I felt like this when I got my allotment last year.

Make the first job tidying it up. Cut down all the long growth, remove any rubbish and then things will seem much more clearer. Do things little and often and others have said concentrate on one bit at a time.

 

Thank you all for your comments, I'm hoping to recycle as much as I can, using rubble and brick for drainage in the garden when we have a conservatory put on the back of the house as it's on a slope. The wood from the shed and trees will be shredded for the compost bin or used as mulch. I priced up a skip and they want over £200 for a 4yard one. I can get a rubbish removal company to take it once everything is bagged up, they charge £130 for 7 yards worth of stuff. I will need somebody to come out and trim all the trees as they haven't been touched since I moved in

 

I wouldn't shred the wood from the shed personally. It could contain all sorts of nasty chemicals like creosote.

Have a look at it again and see if it can be dismantled. If so stick it up on ebay or gumtree. I sold two concrete garages I had at the bottom of my garden when we moved in. Someone paid me £160 to take them away and I didn't have to lift a finger either. Your one looks much simpler to get rid of. It seems a waste to chip it if its in that good a nick too imo.

 

The shed is beyond repair, it's been up at least 30 years and is falling apart and leaning so far over I'm afraid to walk past it in case it collapses ! My brother is in the process of emptying the contents I'm keeping into a smaller shed at the bottom of the garden. He wants to dismantle it but there is a live wire from the house into the shed. Does anybody know if there is a way around calling out an electrician, which will be costly. I won't be using the wood from the shed as it has been painted. It will be cut up small enough to go into the garden waste wheely bin we have, saving on removel costs. Any advice on the wiring will be appreciated, he is only here today and tomorrow and wanted it gone today.

 

Have you got a picture of the wiring in the shed? If it was done recently you should be able to follow the wire back to the consumer unit in the house and then end the connection there. Personally I would try and keep the wiring for outside as it may prove useful in the future.