Thanx Fu for all you advice. We have been following all the steps you recommended. We first got a trailer of soil from gardenersdirect, bentolite and zeolite for the front lawn. rotary hoed all that then spread it. We had ordered 10 m3 of mulch through mulchnet last week and voila we got 13 m3 of mulch delivered to our door step. Its ironbark. Is ironbark a good mulch?
Waiting for DH to come and do all the hard work this weekend.