Hi
We have.a kind of 2 section 200 foot long garden. The top half is flat and formal. The second back half is sloped and on the right hand side is a an orchard of 10 apple trees. The left, we have recently added 4 x raised beds of about 2 x 1m. They are 3-4 railway sleepers high.
The house had been rented for many years before we moved in last year, and the garden is pretty overgrown. The back part is pretty lumpy is covered in weeds and wild flowers and also bind weed towards the real bottom, but it is starting to encroach on the veg patches and apple trees.
I am thinking of adding more lower level beds on the left hand site to grow flowers for cutting.
So my question would be what do you think the best surface would be around the veg patches and on the left hand side. There is about 1.2m walking gap between each of them.
Grass would mean some kind of levelling activity/weed killing and sewing seed - as well as regular mowing.
Others could be wood chip or gravel I guess.
Any advice for ease of maintenance and good looks…