Hi there,
I'm trying to tidy up the side of my house, I wouldn't call it a side garden yet because it's just dirt, but have high hopes that it will be. Ive recently just pulled out the old weedmat that was down there as it was coming loose in places and just looked shabby. That was a mission and a half because the annoying tree right in the middle had its roots all entwined in it but got there. Now I need to lay more weedmat because the weeds are rampant in that area but please ignore the weedmat down in the pic as my flatmate was trying to be helpful by putting it down but did it wrong and it's coming up anyway. I don't know what to do here now!!! The slope is too much to just chuck mulch over some weedmat as will all end up at the bottom. I cant afford that fancy plastic base stuff that holds mulch in place. So then I thought I could have pavers going down to the gate at the bottom (down left side beside house) and kind of dig so there were like 3 levels to the side of the path and put garden bed edging around them so it is like graduated levels ... But that's a lot of digging. So my other idea was still have the big pavers going down to the gate but leave the slope and plant lots of ground cover plants with little stepping stones across to the other side at like 3 places down the hill.... There's a pic of what it looked like before and my progress so far...
