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tell me, have you ever built in an old open-cast mine shaft?

That's how I feel at the moment. I hope that by autumn we can at least somewhat recognize a garden behind the house. I'm still not sure about that.

Sod or sowing?

About 3% of the garden is under construction, hallelujah! The bowl is a temporary solution until the fiber optic is in place.

This is an interesting plot. Somehow appealing. Would you like to share more about it?

Sodding or seeding?

Seeding, I already seeded behind the house on Wednesday.

Let's see if it works. There is no more money left for sod. Or rather, other more important things still need to be paid for.

I hope that by autumn at least a garden can be somewhat recognized behind the house.

Of course you will be able to recognize quite a bit there and at the same time it will not be finished. Enjoy the change with what you plant, how it grows, and the experience of the seasons in the new house. If you play a bit with dry stone walls here and there to create structure, you will immediately get a visually strong progress without paving the garden. I would even find it a pity if my garden were already "finished." In some areas we are only beginning to take measures to build humus; these areas simply take years but will then be very natural and stable. The goal is an approximately 400 sqm area at this spot with shrubs for native birds and insects, offering berries and other wild delicacies, and amidst which one can sometimes retreat with a book.

Overseeding, behind the house I already sowed on Wednesday. Let's see if it works. There is no money left for turf anymore.

Sowing is the method of choice for the patient. In the previous garden, I had better experience with sown lawn than with turf—even if the turf came from a company that also supplies the tough stuff for football fields. The lime-containing water does not harm the lawn. If you have to walk on certain areas, place rubble stones there and walk over these. It looks nice and helps against the initially catastrophic compaction caused by use.

If you are playing around with dry stone walls

Thank you for your encouragement! We want to change the slope topography in the area "behind the house" as little as possible. We also try not to put up any walls in order not to alter the natural terrain course in the upper area. Due to the size of the property, we hope that this will succeed with generous modeling. We were aware that we would not have a low-maintenance garden; it should just be manageable at all. There was a thread before. The property is somewhat tricky! It has an elevation difference of 16m. When clearing, unfortunately, we could only save three oaks, which I have, until now, defended against every civil engineer and basement builder. These trees are now the basis for the garden design.