what's the best way to sort my grass out?

[schroeder]

I cannot dignify it with the word lawn

I have a small dark and damp back garden, mostly grass we have just got rid of a monster of a hedge and have a nice new fence

Trouble is there is now about 3 foot wide of manky dried earth that was hidden under the hedge. I don't really want a border, it would be nice to get the grass to grow right up to the fence-where to start? should I dig something in? I really have no idea

My DP just took a rotorvator to ours, with the intention of re turfing it.

I would like to keep the grass we have and just get it growing over to the new fence, so we could still use the garden meanwhile.

Also digging the whole thing up and turfing is out of our budget.

Obviously I'll need to seed it, I just wondered what was the best way and should I prepare the ground somehow?

you will want to dig it over a bit, and then rake it to remove any big lumps and stuff. then water it, then sprinkle lots of grass seed on.

or turf it as it's a small area? wouldn't cost much

If you can get seed to grow it often makes a better lawn than turf. Needs to be above a certain temperature for grass to grow.
Dig, rake, feed and seed. Some seed mixes might have some feed or similar already with it. The hedge would have been blocking the light and taking the water so you should be able to grown some new grass now its gone.