Weeds and Tree stumps

Hi,
Hard to explain, in my back garden, I haven't got any grass, it's just all soil and loads of weeds and tree stumps coming up through the ground, I want to get rid of all this and put grass turfs down, but before i can do that I need to get rid of the weeds and all the tree stumps, if I get rid of all the weeds and cut the tree stumps so it's leavel with the soil, then tip top soil all over the ground will the tree stumps and weeds still come back through?

Thanks

 

Spray the lot with a glyphosate based weedkiller like Round-Up. Wait for it to die, maybe a a month (with weekly sprayings while you're waiting). Then dig it all over and remove as much weed roots as you can. For the tree stumps, you can hire stump grinders from the likes of HSS, but I've never used one so I don't know how difficult they are.

Once the ground is prepared and stumps out, rake it all level, mix lawn seed with sharp sand, and just cover the lot with such mix. Let the rain and the sunshine work their magic and it will green up in no time, but it won't be a good lawn until maybe next spring. Turf will obviously give a quicker result but is more expensive.

Bottom line, if you don't kill off all the weeds then your efforts will be in vain.