turning garden over

turn over in winter or when you have removed the last crop, sew and plant spring and summer depending what you want to grow.

thank u my garden is so big so unlevel, whats the best way of doing it

Either get digging, Aggie - maybe a digging party???lol.

Or - more serious answer - hire a rotavator for a couple of days, depending on how big the area is.

Leave it rough over the winter, so that the frosts can help to break it down for you.

Good luck!

What are you planning on growing Aggie?

or get a couple of middle aged men on the doal and ask them to double dig it ,for money on the hand,thy will know what you mean , not aginst young folk, but older men will get on with the job rather than clown about, unless you know a couple of good lads, don't forget tea and bickies,

hiring a rotavator is a fab idea... once its all dug over you can then even it out, and start putting in steps or brickwork etc to ensure its stays the levels you want it
how exciting to have a blank canvas

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Assume when you say reseed, you mean grass seed? I'd wait and do that next spring, it's a bit late in the year to do it now, given that you've got lots of preparation to do, by the sound of it.

Hi Aggie and welcome to GoY.
I wonder if digging it over is totally necessary? If your grass is 'good' and this is what you want then could you not level it off with a few bags of quality top soil finely racked over and then re-seed? It would save an awful amount of digging. Plus using a rotavator on a grassed area is more difficult then you might expect.
I ask this because we have a small area in our garden that needs leveling and our local 'man' has suggested this to us.
Good luck with whichever method you decide on.

Well Aggie???

I'd question "quality topsoil" - with the stuff I've seen over the last few years, I'm beginning to doubt that such a thing exists any longer - seems to be mostly clayey motorway spoil that gets delivered.

Oh dear, I can't say I've ever bought any Bamboo. My sandy excuse for soil desperately needs replacing but now I don't know what to do about it? :~((

Not a problem if you only need a small amount of topsoil - they sell that in bags in the garden centre, and it's pretty good, generally. What is variable and usually poor is when you have a truckload delivered for a larger area - that's when the problems occur that I'm referring to, Ian.

And, until Aggie gives us any more info we are all fishing in the dark...

Ahhh Thank you Bamboo, I see what you mean now, yes I can quite imagine some unscrupulous property developer or road contractor advertising "top quality" top soil and then delivering the rubbishy stuff you described. :~)))

from what you say about your soil Ian, that clay stuff is just what you need alonge with a load of well roted manurer, to give your soil some boddy, only tell them that they have deliverd rubbish and ask for a better price. I still say that you should start a peace of land with a good double digging , no matter what you are going to grow ,if only to make shore that you have good drainage, and the added benefits of gaining the nuterants from the clay in the subsoil.by bieing soil all you are doing is bieing someone elses truble, get it dug and make your soil good stuff'