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Do you want to keep any of the existing plants? I'd be tempted to adopt the nuke from orbit approach which I used when I redid my garden - kill everything off with all purpose weedkiller, dig in lots and lots of well-rotted manure, and then lay membrane down with a covering of your choice, except on the veg plots. Then add new plants where you wish.
Brommers
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Just moved into a house with a garden. Bottom half is 6 patches of about 1x2M with random walls, steps through middle etc. It’s all basically empty other than some bushes I’ve cut to stumps. Soil is awful clay topped with rubble and sticks. Loads of bindweed is rearing its head.
I don’t really know anything about gardening – any ideas of how to get started? We’re thinking of just planting a bunch of ornamental stuff near the house, then next winter get it really sorted, do a veg patch up the top etc.