Need to correctly prepare garden to lay a new lawn

Hi everyone!

Great to see the site is back! Great work thanks. I'm getting some very good advice from this forum.

I need some advice on laying a lawn on this garden. Below is a picture of where I've got so far, I've got about 2-3 lines of trenches left to double dig on the left. I've encountered a lot of stones in the soil, around the centre area which I've marked with a red boundary. I've put a lot of the stones into the ditches of the trenches I've dug and I'll remove the rest off the surface once I finish off the double dig this weekend. I doubt this red area is a good base for a new lawn.



My question is outside the red boundary there's a lot of good dark soil from compost bags laid before, as I want the area in the red box to be a good fertile base for a new lawn which I'm going to buy in rolls, what is a suitable compost or soil I can get to put over the red area which will give the lawn the best fertile base for years to come.

....Over to the Experts, cheers for all advice

 

A good topsoil is what you need Anthony or a mix of that and compost. I bought Levingtons multi purpose compost last year that I used for mulching, it's quite a chunky mix and not as fine as you would use for potting but would be ideal for under a lawn.