Is this a dream? Growing grass in a bed?

[Devonshiregal]

Ok so I do not know the first thing about gardening, just gonna put that out there before I ask this…

I have a garden which is not growable - bad soil, light, concrete, all sorts. It would need to be gutted and even then not sure.

so you know how people grow flowers in flower beds - like the raised beds with wood round the edge, and they put that black material (yeah seriously don’t know anything about gardening) and then put soul in and add the flowers and they grow, right?

well couldn’t I just make a massive raised bed the size of my entire garden and put soil in then lay turf over the top? So it would be a giant raised flowerbed but would essentially be a lawn?

like just write off what’s underneath and just have a lawn a foot or two higher than the ground?

My garden is not massive, think normal British terraced house small size. And I don’t see why if flowers will grow in a bed, lawn won’t?

perhaps this is the most stupid question ever but I need to know!

I’ll see if I can find one from last year and will dm you. It’s looking crap this year (totally my fault) but I’ll send one of those too!

I would get another quote, that's ridiculous money.

Have a look on local Facebook page or ask around for people. There are plenty of people around me who would do that job for a couple of hundred quid.

I do landscaping. It’s incredibly rare to need a pneumatic drill. If you can get underneath it then borrow a big pointy stick off someone. It will shatter just with some prising and physics.

Alternatively hire a mini digger and just scrape it.

Big pointy stick… startsafety.uk/products/carters-man-made-chisel-and-point-crowbar

I did pretty much what you are describing, except with a brick edge, and it worked fine. However, there was plenty of sun, everything to do with lawns is much more difficult without sun.
We made a brick edge to contain the soil, put about 8 inches of top soil with grit on top of the concrete and sowed grass seed.

Do you get standing water when it rains or does it drain away fairly quickly?

If there's drainage and adequate light I don't think there'd be a problem except possibly the surface becoming uneven as it settles.

Drains easy but rains a lot

Ooh do you have any pics? This sounds interesting

Sorry, we don’t live there any more. It sounds like your ground is better than ours was, ours was basically a concrete slab, we drilled a few holes in it and that was it.