Sorry to disappoint but the clothes are staying on (for now) ...but I am exposing my front garden for the first time and it's quite revealing. Unfortunately back in 2014 I never took a full view picture of the front garden before I started working on it. There is a flower bed along the pathway and overgrown bush at the back, with a centre piece consisting of rosemary and another plant I have been unable to name.However in the first 3 pictures below you can see that our front garden is quite plain but that is not necessarily the problem. The problem I've always had with my front garden (since way back in the day when my mate James and I used to play one on one football in our Manchester United kit) is that the lawn is so uneven. There is literally a huge square hump in the middle of the lawn and even the most vivid imagination can't turn this into Old Trafford.
My initial reaction to deal with the lovely lady hump was to destroy and rebuild, aka kill all the grass, dig it up and level it out. I started putting newspaper down and was going to cover it all with black bin liners to kill the grass. This plan had potential to work but I realised it would again be creating unnecessary work for myself and ended up picking up all the newspaper. I figured that instead of digging up and killing all the grass all I had to do was bring up the height of the lower level grass.
Right or wrong decision I started by visiting B&Q and buying some quick growing grass seed and a few big bags of compost (Should have bought topsoil but we'll get to that). I put down a thick layer of compost on the fence side of the lawn, spread the grass seed and performed the rain dance to hope for rain as unfortunately we do not own a garden hose. I would have at this point covered the whole lawn but you see sometimes my bank account and my brain have differing views on things...
[ GARDENING TIP ] Trying to level out your lawn is a big and expensive job if you need to constantly purchase bags of topsoil. I think the most cost effective way around this is to buy in bulk from a building and aggregate supplier. That way you should have more than enough to finish the job. If you only have little patches in your lawn rake the dead grass and break up the soil, sprinkle some grass seed, and put on a thin layer of soil and keep the seeds moist for germination. Autumn is the ideal time because mother nature will do the watering for you]
