Rented property with large unkempt garden

How long is your tenancy for ? Strimming it all as low as you can & cover it with whatever you can get, cardboard or something to exclude the light, without light plants cannot photosynthesise & become weak ( this can take over a year, weeds in particular can be particularly difficult. If it�s a farm cottage you must be near a farm, if so & you can get well rotted manure, pile as much of that on top of the cardboard & if you can cover with weed suppressant membrane or tarpaulins or if nothing else black plastic, you can maybe get the plastic farmers use round their bales for hay etc 2 nd hand so possibly free. Just be careful it doesn�t shred as then it�s a nightmare to eliminate. Then start to uncover to plant into the manure when you are ready

hello  if you'd been nearer you could have borrowed my big brushcutter it'll clear a lot of ground in a few minutes,you say you are in rented property is it worth asking the landlord to take a pasture topper in if there's access jezza

Thanks to everyone for the advice. Looks like it�ll take me a while but slow and steady wins the race eh?

Well, I’ve made a start. Not much gardening done yet but shed base is down and the greenhouse is up, courtesy of a handy man!  So I’m happy so far. Not sure why my pictures are on their side though?

Not sure why my pictures are on their side though?

You're not the first - were your pictures taken using an i-phone?

Apple regard it as a feature of their software rather than a glitch  - apparently if you rotate the image on your phone all the way round (i.e. by 360^o) and then save, it should then upload with the correct orientation.

An alternative is to upload to something like Dropbox and upload photo to the forum from there.

(Don't have an i-phone so can't comment on how feasible or effective these suggestions are, or even whether other devices are affected too.)

Looks sturdy, what size did you get?