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Originally Posted by uklude
Hello, all I have just come across this forum and unfortunatly am joining you with limited knowledge on gardening. I bought a new house last year and the back garden is just a turfed box, not even a daisy to brighten things up. It needs planning, building etc and I don't know where to start.
All I want from the garden is to sit out in the summer and enjoy the evening with a beer and look at pretty flowers. By trade I am an Electrician so not to bothered about hard work, I've put an outside light up so far which is very bright and ample for an evenings entertainment.
I don't want a pond, but I do want tree's, bushes, flowers and a bbq.
Please help if it was left to me I'm sure I would ruin it!
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If it is "new build", the first thing to do is check how much real soil there is before you hit the rubble from the building works. I know someone whose garden had to be entirely stripped and the rubbish removed before new topsoil was brought in. Developers have a very bad practice of spreading the minimum of topsoil and dumping turf on top.