On Jan 19, 3:54*am, PeanutMonster PeanutMonster.
wrote:
I moved into my new house July and we were looking forward to playing in
the new garden. *Unfortunately the previous owners had for whatever
reasons buried bags containing grass cuttings in the garden, making the
whole garden on about 6 different levels. *

What I want to do now as it's too cold to be playing out side is to
take up all the grass (which is in clumps anyway and needs removing),
remove the bags and level the soil out. *Then put down some grass seed
and make some planting areas. *Is it advisable to do this as I am a
little concerned about turning it into a quagmire...

The garden is about 35 x 35 foot square...

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PeanutMonster

If the soil is very wet, as it tends to be in many locations in
winter, you don't want to do this now. Working water saturated soil -
even walking on it a lot - will breakdown soil structure and cause
compaction. Not a good thing! Wait until it dries out before you
attempt any lawn renovation or the creation of planting beds. Looks
like you live in the UK, so planting a new lawn is something best left
until April or May anyway. Same with most northern areas of the US
also.

Are these like plastic bags of grass clippings buried under the
ground? What where they thinking??!! They should make a nice start to
a compost pile, though, once you are able to remove them (sans bags,
of course). Add some browns (dried leaves, paper, straw) and any
kitchen scraps and you'll have some nice composted soil amendment in a
few months.