Hi

we have been in our house for 3 years and have never been brave enough
to tackle the garden. its gotten progressively worse and is nice
basically all weeds, which i embarrasingly cut every copule of weeks.

We are getting married later this year and dont have the money or time
to do much in the garden now until next year. I dont want to keep
mowing the weeds just so it looks a quarter decent (when compared to
the neighbours) and would like some advice on what to do.

I am thinking about (bear with me here, i'm a complete novice!) buying
some sort of weed killer to apply after i next mow them and however
many applications it takes to just kill them all, and i presume the
grass with it. Is this a sensible thing to do or will it damage the
soil so it will mean more work/money next year when we come to sort the
garden out?

next year we are thinking of just getting someone in to replace the
turf, and do whatever it is that needs doing to make it look like a
proper garden! what i dont want to do is to take some action now that
will mean problems next year - i dont know the best time to replace and
grow a new lawn...

any advice would be greatly appreciated - does my weed killer idea seem
ok? and if so what sort of thing should i look for (anything on the
bottle/pack that i should look for)?

thanking you! lee