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Hi all,
I'm really not sure what to do for the best here, I wondered if I could ask some advice. My mum and I took over a new half plot, 8m x 8m last Saturday, I posted some pictures somewhere. It was completely full of rubbish, bags, old bottles and had giant vegetables still left in it. It was described to us as 'the previous tenant started things and left them, he also dug massive holes and then refilled them!'
However the whole plot is literally a massive moonscape of craters and sunk bits, we are talking whole really sunken beds, which were all edged in a twisted rope of plastic bags as a 'border'. I really need to level the plot properly so we can cover it in proper weed suppressant, then we are going to put raised beds/edged beds? on top, cutting the membrane in those places as the soil is mostly in good condition.
My mum is 70 and at the ripe old age of 44 I've already had two discs in my back rupture. I can dig and expected to remove weeds and rubbish, but not have to level to this extent. I'm seriously considering removing as many weeds as possible then getting a rotavator in, which I promised myself that I would never do. Just wasn't expecting this level of earth moving.
What would you do?
I'm really not sure what to do for the best here, I wondered if I could ask some advice. My mum and I took over a new half plot, 8m x 8m last Saturday, I posted some pictures somewhere. It was completely full of rubbish, bags, old bottles and had giant vegetables still left in it. It was described to us as 'the previous tenant started things and left them, he also dug massive holes and then refilled them!'
However the whole plot is literally a massive moonscape of craters and sunk bits, we are talking whole really sunken beds, which were all edged in a twisted rope of plastic bags as a 'border'. I really need to level the plot properly so we can cover it in proper weed suppressant, then we are going to put raised beds/edged beds? on top, cutting the membrane in those places as the soil is mostly in good condition.
My mum is 70 and at the ripe old age of 44 I've already had two discs in my back rupture. I can dig and expected to remove weeds and rubbish, but not have to level to this extent. I'm seriously considering removing as many weeds as possible then getting a rotavator in, which I promised myself that I would never do. Just wasn't expecting this level of earth moving.
What would you do?
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