My garden in such a mess.....where do I start?

[yellowbaglady]

I should start this off by saying I am 7 months pregnant and HUGE already so not really able to do much physically.

I bought a lovely patio set recently which is super comfortable and looks lovely but I feel so meh when I sit out in the garden an look at the mess. We have some nice plants but equally the flower bed needs a good weed. The patio is a mess and everything is too heavy for me to lift . We have bags of rubble piled up in the corner which I am trying to arrange to have collected by a waste collection company.
The grass needs mowing and there is a half finished path running down the side of the garden which DP has promised to sort but keeps making excuses. If I wasn't pregnant I would do it myself!
Ideally I'd love a little patio under our tree for my lounge set so i can sit out and read but I'm thinking if I can't get DP to finish a path he isn't going to build a patio. He is more than capable of doing both.....I just get the distinct impression he doesn't want to and he basically told me that 14 yo ds should do it which i thought was a joke but he was being serious!

Ds is going to mow the lawn and do some weeding for some pocket money, just wondering if anyone has any easy ways to create a patio (I have the slabs) without needing too much effort.

I keep looking at it and don't know where to start.

If it was me, I'd pay someone to do it -with DP's money

lol I wish. I know DP won't pay anyone.

Ds was listening to me moan down the phone to my mum earlier and have been beavering away bless him so it does look a little better. It's just a bit overwhelming and I don't know where to start with it.

I would focus on a small, entirely different corner of the garden first.

Pick a small section, weed it and plant it exactly how you like it, dense planting will greatly reduce weeds.

I’d check that small section once a day for any weeds and when it’s finished I’d move on to another section and so on.

When all that is done you’ll have a beautiful flower bed to look out at when you are sitting on your patio set.

Maybe your DS could mow the lawn once a week, then there will only be the path and patio to do.
It won’t feel quite so overwhelming then

I would definitely get someone in to do the patio.
My DH re-did ours recently and it took him ages (lots of cold drink breaks) and so it was messy for longer too.
Get someone to come in and it’ll be done in a couple of days.