Does anyone know anything about gardening?

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Trunkie
Ok long post warning.

I have a garden. I know nothing about gardening. What I do know is that I want to do something with the bland rectangle. I’ll break this down into several questions:
1. The ‘grass’ is mainly moss, cat shit and builder’s rubble. What’s the best way to resurrect this? Dig the whole thing over? Pick out the shit and rubble and scarify it?
2. I plan to make some (fairly low) raised beds along the left side using railway sleepers. The garden is on a slope so I want to even this out as much as possible and step the sleepers. What should I use against the fence to hold the soil and prevent it rotting? I’ve assumed the left side is the best side as it gets sun most of the day and the other side is almost permanently in the shade. Is this the best approach?
3. Does anyone have a good source for sleepers?
4. We plan to build a studio at the bottom at some point in the future (hello Golf Club thread). I’m guessing it’d make sense to run power under the raised beds while I’m digging in that area?
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ColinTheBald in reply to @Trunkie
1. Hire rotovator, break into fine tilth, throw away crap, roll and re-turf.
2. Best practice is a 9" block or brick wall with weep holes at the bottom. Possibly sleepers on top of block wall to hide ugly blocks. Proper railway sleepers would last probably 15 years if used as a wall, new pine ones would last five minutes.
3. Not at the moment, all suppliers closed!
4. Yes. Either run it through conduit or use armoured cable. Put shingle 4" all around and a warning plastic tape above. Go as deep as you can...
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jellybaby in reply to @Trunkie

Does anyone have a good source for sleepers?

Not all suppliers are closed. Lawsons are open for example.

I don't know enough to recommend them or not.

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