Update on new house and advice needed. No rain in Adelaide for at least 5 weeks. Switched to rain water (24000 litre underground tank was full) so have been running whole house (2 adult 3 children) since then. Looks as if would get 8weeks from supply wit no top up rain but I hope we getsome good falls soon. Continuing with the landscaping around my new house I need some ideals for building garden beds. The soil is not great and has been contaminated by soil dug up for footings, builders sand, rubble laid for trucks etc so I will probably remove at least the top few inches which probably includes the previous topsoil. My question is how to prepare for plantings. I will need to truck soil in for the job. Can anyone advise on the type and depth of soil considering I plan to have mostly native plantings. Any other advice would be helpful to start this garden from scratch. Thank you
g'day tiger, go the easy way all but forget about waht is already there in the soil department, and do raised beds, they are no-dig, no-weed & water-wise. check on our site we have pics etc.,. of how we do ours. len