Overgrown garden

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My garden is full of weeds. No lawn/grass at all.

My question is: how do I go from jungle to beautiful lawn?

I have no idea where to start. But I know it's not just a case of cutting it as there isn't any actual grass and the weeds would just all grow back.

Thanks in advance!

Photos would be great so we can see what weeds and how much space.

It will take a while but you have to dig out all of the brambles and as much of their roots as possible, they can be well over a meter long. All of the plant should be burned or disposed of away from your garden. Cut down any branches or plant parts that over hang where you want your lawn to be. Get grass seed and scatter liberally. Water regularly. After about a month the lawn will be on its way. Keep pulling up stray brambles! I did this over the lockdown as my garden was a bramble jungle. I would recommend adding lawn seed every spring. I still have to pull up brambles to stop them taking hold. Chop over hanging branches as lawns don't like to be in the shade.

Oh yes, rake up moss and chop weeds at root before you add the seed. A lot of mine was bare soil at that point.

If it isn't a big area I'd get it raked over and turfed but it depends on your budget.

This was my garden two weeks ago. Completely overgrown with brambles. Got a gardener to clear and take away for £180. He's going to come once a fortnight now for £30 to keep on top of it.

Most weeds dislike being mown and will eventually die off. As long as the ground itself is flat, and isn't full of brambles, then just pull out the biggest weeds, mow it all down to about 2" and chuck great handfuls of grass seed down everywhere. Mow every week from now on. You will be surprised how quickly it will start to look reasonable. Then in the autumn, you can stick on some autumn lawn treatment stuff and then a spring treatment next year.

Some good advice already and we had something similar after building work. Mow it short, tidy the edges, see what you've got. Get a weed fork to deal with the big weeds, which leaves a patch but the grass quickly deals with it, even if you think you don't have any! See what you have after a couple of months and you be amazed how quickly you have something that you can live with. Even if you decide after keeping the area tidy to get grass sown / laid, it does help to start dealing with the more persistent weeds by mowing and pulling. I will never have a bowling green area of grass, but I do have some great wildflowers, primroses, cowslips and daisies, all of which the insects love. Don't be too hard on the weeds, the wildlife love some of them.