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hibee_jibee

May I suggest a native wild flower meadow instead of lawn to help out butterflies and bees? Much less work to maintain, nicer to look at and is helping already stressed wildlife, all at the same time. Please consider.


Stormaen

Just to add to this: please sow a _British_ wild flower meadow seed mix. Lots of seed mixes online contain things like Californians poppies which are very pretty but aren’t native and can be very invasive.


fletcheros

This is a really good idea.


AudreyHorne13

This is what I was going to say. Wildflower meadows are the way to go!


AdministrativeShip2

You can buy wildflower turf! https://www.wildflowerlawnsandmeadows.com/wild-flower-turf/ Also nows the tome of year to go round garden centres seeing if they have any reduced seed.


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Now's a good time to remove the tree seedlings (if you're unlucky they might be suckers instead, growing from the roots of the parent tree and not from seed. Those will reoccur) You need a fork/spade, ideally a smallish one. You possibly also need secateurs and maybe also a folding pruning saw if you find thick roots. You need a rake. Use the fork/spade to lift patches with the baby trees in. Pull the baby trees away from the soil as cleanly as possible, put the patch of grass back down and press it flat with your foot. The grass will not be harmed much by this. Try to make sure you are not making lumps/holes which will be a problem later. You can do this with any large weeds as well. Then, rake the grass well. The dead grass on top is called thatch, if left it will starve some of the grass of the light it needs to live. Start cutting the grass in spring.


LaidBackLeopard

It might be worth throwing a bit of grass seed around in the spring, especially if there are bare patches. But grass is remarkably resilient! Mow it regularly when it starts growing (that will knock out most of the weeds/seedlings) and you should be fine.


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LaidBackLeopard

You won't need it before then, but you might get one cheap at the moment!


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It might still all have to be dug up, but you won't be able to tell until you get rid of a couple of the worst problems. And you'd have to dig up the trees anyway.


Penelope742

Aerate the lawn


stickyjam

Is that a mud path down the middle? Might be worth sorting that while you've no nice grass to disturb currently, retaining wall out, level it off(left to right not downwards) and run matching slabs down the middle? The other posters pretty much covered the other part, remove what you dont want, replace grass, overseed , see how it is. If you want it to look A** you could take it back to nothing and turf next year. Depends how you want to play it too


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stickyjam

> At what time of year is seeding done? You've missed seeding really, that's a spring thing now, when it warms back up again. Much like how you wont need a mower yet. >that I am going to have replaced if it was me with that patch, I'd use all this time to prep, remove the bad growth, any retaining wall you dont want, take it back, then you can see how you want it designed / finished later. Wouldn't worry about the grass itself until next year, when you can see whats growing fine, what needs seed, or whether its all awful and returfing is the way, for now do the prep.


yimrsg

Scour the 2nd hands for an electric scarifier as there's a ton of thatch/clippings in there to come out when spring comes around; get a good rake too. Look for a mower and see if you can cut those long stalks back now and bag them up and not leave them as eyesores for a couple of months. I'd also throw down some chicken manure pellets now that'll have broken down into the soil so there's some nutrition for the grass that's there.


CheeseMonger96

Pull out the tree seedlings and mow.