This was the garden the day I bought this place 12 months later it’s been cleared but now have the problem of trying to level it off I have been quoted £4000 for soil to level a 25 x25 mtr area to a depth of 12 cm. Anyone have any suggestions on how to level it .
I’m having a chicken run and a greenhouse along with a area for growing my own fruit and veg.
When I say cleared I mean all old sheds (3) a skip full of old bikes & all kinds of rubbish the owners decided to just dump in the garden.
I’m now at the stage where I want to get the garden looking level and tidy before the next stage starts!.
Just have no idea where to start!
by Boom-boom56
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You’ll be needing to go to the tip. Maybe consider a skip.
Personally I’d do nothing until Spring. Then I’d be cutting down what’s there really low. Following that it should be clearer what needs to happen next. Basically I wouldn’t want a mud garden over winter.
Sorry this was a year ago I. ,m at the stage now where I want to level it
First off congrats on getting all that trash out because that is usually the hardest part of the job. That quote you got sounds painful but the math actually checks out since you are trying to import nearly 100 cubic yards of material which is a massive volume of dirt to truck in. The mistake here is thinking you need to level the entire 80 by 80 foot space just to put in a greenhouse and some chickens. You are trying to build a bowling alley when you should be building zones, and usually you want some slope for drainage anyway so water doesn’t pool in the middle.
Instead of importing soil you should look into doing a cut and fill. You rent a mini-excavator or a skid steer for the weekend and you scrape the high spots down and push that dirt into the low spots to even things out. For the vegetable garden absolutely do not spend money filling the ground level. Build raised beds 8 to 12 inches high using cedar or galvanized steel. This way you only spend money on high-quality compost for the specific boxes where the plants grow rather than wasting money raising the grade of the paths where you walk. You only need a truly flat pad for the greenhouse foundation and the coop.
It’s going to be lovely, keep us updated
Thanks for the info all makes sense!