I have started to get on with the new front garden...Im going to need way more organic material. Ive done one garden with grape, fijoa, mandarin, guava, white currant trees (saplings) in. The topsoil is pretty shallow then its clay.

Ive layered the garden bed material starting with compost then wet shredded newspaper branches and then rotted lawn clippings from next door. I will continue to keep building this up. Ill put in small plants too like silverbeet and also lupins for nitrogen fixing. Ill just load up the beds. That will go in in the next few days. There is an area around the front front-where no one goes- where I will see if it can cope with corn, the soil may be too clay-ey for now but Ill just keep adding to it. There are 2 slightly sunken areas whihc Im thinking about making into a pond or water garden. Bit by bit. Ill be doing a lot of observation on this area. There are some branches of shrubs and trees here and also from the back which I can chip to add to the gardens.