Very poorly lawn

Grass is very nice but by the description of your I would get rid of grass and have pretty gravel see the 'photo of my small garden,less work and no maintenance!!!

You're not the first to suggest that, but I'd really rather have grass. We like the bees, butterflys, birds, etc that frequent the lawn. Currently have a blackbird that follows me round whenever he thinks I might disturb some food :)

I'll let you know how the grass growing goes this year. If it fails I'll dig it out over the winter and get it properly prepared for another try next year. The exercise is all good!

I normally try to re-seed about September time - because the soil is warm so it starts off the seeds and then gives plenty of time for it to grow before the cold of the winter. I too prefer grass, although it depends on how much you have, by the sounds of it you have the inclination to look after it - go for it!

I would hire a turf cutter to remove it all, then a rotovater to clear the ground, rake off stones, add some home made compost or bought stuff or a few tons of decent top soil, then chuck grass seed down. Do it in September if you have time between now and then, otherwise May is good.

It sounds like you have done all you can apart from starting again. When we hired a scarifier and did ours it looked horrendous but it did recover and now looks ok, apart from the odd daisy and dandelion which we can live with.

I'd quite like some daisys an dandelions. I think I might now go for starting again in September as previous posters have recommended. I planted the seeds just before my garden, and house were flooded on Thursday. I don't suppose it would do them any harm, if they're still in my garden somewhere!! :(

I don't think the seeds stayed in the garden when it went under a few feet of water. I think I might put in some back work to dig out the stones and break up the soil, dump a few tons of top soil and turf/seed it later in the summer. How do I calculate how much soil I need?