[Dominic]

Theres a patch of my garden thats a pain to get to, so it rarely gets mowed, and grows lots of weeds.
I bought a packet of wildlife mix flower seeds yesterday from pound land, and thought I'd weedkiller the patch, chuck these over and hope they can displace the weeks, for a while at least.
Anyway, going back today, I bought some 3 gooesberry as well.  the area is about 1x4, so more than enough for the gooseberry, will the flowers be ok planted as a top cover aroun them?  Or is everything just going to die?

[DD.]

Depends how big your gooseberries get, nothing grows unde mine. I suspect that being the first year they won't get too large, so I'm sure some flowers will make it.

[Goosegirl]

If you have been mowing it, it sounds like a grassy area. My understanding of growing wildlife flowers (as in a meadow mix) is that you need really poor soil for them to be successful, whereas your gooseberries won't like that at all. Your weeds will have no doubt set plenty of seeds so you will have them as well as everything else, so how are you going to tell what are flowers and what are weeds? I would plant the goosegog plants (you don't mention the sun aspect so presume it is in full sun for most of the day) but I would carefully remove about 1" of topsoil beforehand to reduce the dormant weed seeds, plant the goosegogs, cover with what soil, compost etc you have, give it a good mulch with whatever you can find and be vigilant about weeding it. Be careful if you find couch grass there as you will need to remove as much of it as you can - you can always dig any remaining bits out or glyphosate it if needs be. If it is a pain to get to, perhaps you could find a way to improve this, as picking goosegogs and weeding will still need to be done. Low-growing flowers like begonias should be ok or even parsley.

[Dominic]

My Garden has quite a pronounced slope, part of it is relativly curved, this bis has a sharp curve, and then steep (like over a foot) "steps".  I've fallen several times trying to mow it.
There is some grass, but its more weeds, its certainly not "lawn", if I could maintain it was such, I would.  Digging up the top inch is out of the question.

I mowed it on the tightest setting over the weekend, and then blasted it with weed killer, I'm hoping that will get most of the weeds.
Getting to it once or twice a year to pick gooseberries is a very different proposition to constantly weeding.

I was hoping I could kill off the current occupants, and replace them before they can come back.
Soil has had industrial quantities of 7-7-7 added over the years.