Old and a bit overgrown

Hi
I am moving to a house with a long overgrown garden sloping away from house, would like suggestions as to what would be best to do, would like grass and some veg.

 

Hi @Phil Clark - that looks like a good sized garden! It depends on how steep the slope is really. I have just had my very sloping garden terraced, but yours doesn't look as bad. I would suggest that if you want both a lawn and a veg patch, you consider how you would access the veg patch ie a path to avoid getting sludgy. A cheap version would be bark over weed membrane. For the veg patch start by removing turf from a SMALL area (put the turves in a pile, grass side down so that they rot into a nice loam eventually), try digging it over, add manure or other nutrient, then start sowing seeds in the spring! Only do as much as you can manage otherwise it can be disheartening. And preferably put the veg patch away from the overgrown area so it gets plenty of sunshine.
Oh and for the lawn, start simple - just mow the existing grass regularly and the rough stuff should start to die out. You can start using feed and weed later.

 

Hi,

So much potential there with such a long area.

What direction does your house face ? cannot see any sunlight /shadows in your photo.

Those bushes on the left hand side look as though they need taming and should give you back even more light and area to cultivate.

Suggest you walk around to get a feel of the garden and build up a picture in your mind of what you would like to see it as in the future and put those ideas down as a rough sketch so we can hopefully add some useful input.

 

Hi Ricky
It's south facing and sunny, bushes are wild, and saplings, plenty of blackcurrant too, i want a portion of lawn, think will have to start from scratch, maybe a landing strip down centre, then a veg patch at bottom end. Obviously been nice years back (shame) footing of a greenhouse existing and apple trees cut to stumps.

 

Long thin gardens have lots of potential for sectioning thus having areas for vegs, seating, shed/greenhouse, lawn and whatever else you desire.