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The back garden is paved with 2×2 horrible-grey-but-practical-flag-stones with gaps in them which we call the flower beds.
I inherited the garden like this and never really liked it but never came up with a solution until now.
I have decided that there is a lack of grass in the back garden (plenty in the front but that isn’t chook friendly) and am thinking about lifting a staggered area of 27 of the flag-stones which will divide the garden up a little more and give a little texture to what is quite drab looking.
If I lift the flags there will be a recess to fill with top soil which I don’t have. I will then have to seed the whole area. And then wait for the grass to come. And then do some praying for non-patchiness.
If I go to B&Q I can buy turf for £2.48 a square meter. Or. 50p a square meter for the dying off and left lying without any sunlight for too long stuff.
I thought long and hard about this quandry. Whether to turf it at all. Whether to turf it with the cheapy stuff. . . I thought too long and by the time we went back to B&Q the turf was no longer there!
We may come back to this idea in a while – make it a new project for when the run is done and dusted as it really would open the garden up to us again.