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Ok so looking for some advice. Bear in mind I'm completely new to any form of gardening. We just bought our first house and with it came a nice sized back yard and deck. It also had three small pear trees that were maybe 6 feet tall. She wanted rid of them and just wants a green space for our son to run around hazard free. So I chopped them down yesterday and dug the roots up today. So I'm left with one hole maybe 1 ft deep x 3 ft wide and two smaller ones. Now when I dug the smaller ones out I was able to keep most of the grass intact as it came out as sort of sods. Can I just fill the hole where the roots were and lay the sods of grass back down on top? The bigger one I'm planning on putting some top soil down and seed the patch...would this be ok?

Also there were random large rocks and a couple of 10"x10" paving stones down. I removed them and forked up the soil a bit. I was thinking the same for that, topsoil and seed?

Then there's an area in the back corner where the previous owners had a slab of rock and a couple of logs sunk into the ground. I removed all these but the ground is very uneven. We were thinking of doing a raised flowerbed in that corner. Can you just drop dirt on top of the grass that's there or does it have to be dug up? It won't see much sunlight either so is there even any point in putting it there?

Wow that was a long post, sorry for the newbie questions just want to have the yard looking decent. Any advice/ideas would be great!


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