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In fact it's not any shape at all. It has some straight edges and some curved parts.
What should I do?

Maybe it looks something like this:

You could try covering your garden with a grid of squares – these could be 1 meter
squares or 1 foot squares, something like this:

How do I make a grid?

Try using pegs in the ground and join them up with string. Make sure they are the
right distance apart and all angles are right angles.

How does this help? The grid and the outline of the garden don't match. There are
lots of corners and curved parts.

Count the squares!

There are special methods talked about on the Area page. The simplest method is:

 more than half a square counts as 1
 less than half a square counts as 0