tips on removing my lawn !

Hi, I'm new to gardening and wanted to know what to do to basically make my old uneven bad condition lawn into soil and a bedding area for nice plants ! Do I just remove the top layer of lawn( how deep ) and get planting ? Would really appreciate some tips , Cheers !

 

I've had to do exactly that, Matt - if you like to e-mail or pm me, I'll tell you what we did - it's awfully long for a posting! (hope that doesn't discourage you.... :rolleyes: