Gardeners question time!!! When should I turf?

[matt100]

I've finally got the funds together to turf my frankly embarrasing garden.

It ain't small and its going to cost me iro £2k so the last thing I want to do is pick the wrong time of year and have it die on me because I very much doubt patrick and patrick ltd will give a stuff.

So, do I do it now and risk it drying out? (no hosepipe ban here but also I have no sprinkler)
Do I do in in the autumn when its nice and wet but risk it freezing and dying?
Do I wait until spring which seems safest to me...

Or is it pretty unlikely to die either way?

 

[matt100]

Oh I will, I'm just never convinced by the recommendation of someone trying to sell me something, frankly I've told so many blatent lies in the pursuit of sales in the past that I know to take it all with a shovelfull of salt

 

[matt100]

frankly my kids will probably trash it anyway so I'mnot too concerned about it looking good but the man assured me in his ruddy coutry accent that he would "kill everything" and then "flatten it.. arrrr" and then make sure it "looked bootiful".

And I see no reason to doubt him, I had a builder turn up in a merc to quote me once so I sent him packing, this chap turned up in a trashed landrover defender with a dog in the back so he seems kosher

I'm making light of it, I expect spring is the time to go for it then... bummer. Embarrasing garden for another 6 months.