Hard yards for a backyard paradise

It rained over the weekend and late Friday night, so the grass seed we had sown has commenced to germinate. 2IC has been re designing the back yard as it is built on a slope with the slope enhanced so now it is all level and rises in stages. It was a tacky lay out which was the lazy gardeners answer to greenery and flora..AGAPANTHUS...YEEEECH along every fence line. Over the past two years we have removed over 100 plants along approximately 80metres of fence line, put in two kitchen vegetable gardens, removed the slope in the entire yard, created new garden beds, replaced most of a lawn pop up sprinkler system with drippers along the fence line and int the beds, and mulched the most of the lawn area ( read dust and now mud) with sugar cane mulch. ALL the soil removal and reassigning was done by hand by 2IC! We planted out some natives along some of the fence line before Christmas and put drippers in place, these are going well. The back fence line needs to have about 50 plus aggies removed and the beds shaped and natives planted, them another 30 plus of them to be removed from under the fruit trees and the beds there shaped also. The tiered area to the children's playground..also built by 2IC will have a retaining wall of rock so over the weekend we jammed in rock hunts on our usual trips about the place.

I like gardens, I enjoy being in them and working in them. Last night, rocks were being placed for stepping steps-cum-bed border near the kids playground and spring onions, oregano and parsley were being planted in the veggie patch for winter fare. I have a mix of cottage garden seed I got and whilst I have tried these before at the old place it was not the most ideal spot for them...so today or tomorrow I will prepare the bed for them and see where it takes us. The kids enjoy the garden to and both Mr 4 and 7 like to help Dad. Eventually it will be what we want.