Lawn in need of rescue...

[zax]

We planted our lawn last year. Unfortunately the topsoil we were given turned out to be full of weeds (variety unknown). So as well as some nice new grass we ended up with this:



Spent all summer uprooting them by hand, which was not fun and took a while. Seems to have gotten rid of them, fingers crossed they won't come back again this year.

Problem is though that the uprooting made the lawn rather lumpy and covered in small (and some not so small) craters plus lots of small bare patches. Just rolling the ground isn't going to fix it so could anybody advise on how to smooth things out nicely? Mrs Zax wants to redo the whole thing which I would rather avoid unless absolutely necessary I'm not very green fingered...

Thanks!

[zax]

Thanks for the replies, lots of food for thought there. Looks like I'll be doing a lot of raking, plucking, mowing and filling this summer

Since we'll be getting another load of topsoil anyway (need to do the opposite side of the garage now) would it be very stupid to spread a thin layer of that over the most cratered parts, roll it flat then re-seed?

I think I feel another thread coming on about how to deal with our 2 metre tall, 45 degree, jungle covered bankings at the lawn edges