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A rotavator and water filled roller from your local hire centre will do the job in a couple of hours. Rotavate to a fine tilth, rake and roll flat, repeating until you have a firm flat surface. Turf it over using standard turf, fine turf is more expensive than standard and is only an advantage if you want to pay bowls. Expect to pay about £5 per metre roll, I pay £3 trade. You can walk on it immediately in flat shoes, it actually helps to flatten it down. BUT, you absolutely must keep it damp for at least a month to allow it to root into the soil. If it dries out it it will shrink, curl up, go brown and be generally permanently fucked.
ColinTheBald
Any thoughts on what to do with this?
It's pretty small, 4m x 4m maybe.
Would like grass (preferably real). How long do you have to stay off after laying new turf? Assume I'd have to do a fair bit of digging to break up that soil for turf.
It's an end of terrace so the brick wall faces out onto the street. Eventually I'd like something high and reasonably impenetrable growing along there. Any suggestions?
The side "corridor" is about 6' x 20'. Any ideas what to do there? (Although there is a reasonable chance that a bike shed will be going there)
Cheers