weedy lumpy garden - to turf or to seed?! help!?

[fran]

Hi!

After years of struggling with a lumpy weedy garden (trying to dig it over with a fork - picking out all weeds) but the weeds always returning with avengance and the lumps remaining - well lumpy...

A friend and I are going to have a shot at rotivating it tomorrow. (hopefully sort out the lumps!)

I have cut everything back as low to the ground as possible, removed large stones from the top, and so hopefully the rotivator will go through ok.

I am hoping to get advice for what to do after. Turf or seed?

My friend has said the he thinks turf is the only way to go because otherwise the weeds will come back up faster than the grass - making it just as bad as before!

But turf is very expensive, and i don't mind if the lawn is not perfect - i dont mind a bit of weedyness as long as it's not a jungle and it's pretty flat.

Do you think i can get away with seeding it? If i pick out the weed roots forst - or as many as i can, do you think the seed stands a chance?

Thanks for any advice.

 

[Skipweasel]

Seed. As you say, turf is expensive and good turf more so. Seed and plenty of it, then string cottons all over it to keep the birds off for a couple of weeks.

The weeds won't come back any worse through turf than with seeds - they're persistent blighters. What realyl does it is mowing it regularly. Most weeds can't survive weekly mowing.

 

[Skipweasel]

Seed. As you say, turf is expensive and good turf more so. Seed and plenty of it, then string cottons all over it to keep the birds off for a couple of weeks.

The weeds won't come back any worse through turf than with seeds - they're persistent blighters. What realyl does it is mowing it regularly. Most weeds can't survive weekly mowing.