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Help regarding back garden

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PeyAm · 26/04/2012 14:28

The back garden is all flagged but most of these are very uneven and my son has tripped over these occasionally. Also, every year we get horrendous weeds coming up between the flags, literally it is like a patch of grass come April. I put weedkiller down several times in the summer and then eventually hand pick all of them out (and scrape between the flags) but they still come up very fast.
One small flag has always been loose and it appears that the landlord (rented house) has just stuck the flags down over what was once possible grass/dirt (much of the weeds look like grass stalks too). This may not be the case for the whole area but seems likely given the amount of weeds coming through every single gap?

I was wondering if it is possible and how much effort would be required to dig up some of the flags and re plant some grass? Is this something we could easily do ourselves?
Landlord doesn't mind what we do as long as we keep everything tidy, but this is extremely difficult with the uneven, weed ridden garden we have atm!

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mumblejumble · 26/04/2012 16:45

I would take up the ones I could getup easily by hand/crowbar/spade and see what I have to work with. You would probably need to dig it over, compost, kill weeds etc before you do anything with it

plipplops · 03/05/2012 22:26

Could you just pull up any that will come up easily and see what's there. It should be flat so assuming it's soil you could just dig it over a little bit (I wouldn't go too deep), tread it flat and lay some grass seed. As long as you kept it watered it should be ok, by the sound of it it can't get much worse...

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