Garden bed preparation

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  1. tiger

    tiger New Member

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    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
     
  2. gardenlen

    gardenlen Group for banned users

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    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
     

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