Where will the garden go?

Where will the garden go?  Why, next to the driveway, of course!

Next to the driveway is a respectably-sized patch of grass.  It's around 40' wide and 80' from the street to the maple tree (right side of picture behind the yucky swath of Juniper).  There is a slight slope down toward the shed at the woods line.  The plan is to set up a rectangular garden inside that area with that Japanese maple roughly in the middle.  The area immediately around the Japanese maple will eventually have a more ornamental feel to it.  I'm thinking an arbor on the north side, a park bench underneath, and some sort of flowering climbers on either side.  Thus: there is shade and relaxation in the garden surrounded by the crops.

Prior to taking this picture, there had been a more sizeable bed where that Japanese maple is.  We have since removed four misshapen Juniper bushes, a poorly maintained Hydrangea, two small sad rose bushes, a few large weeds, and a rotting ornamental birdhouse.  In digging up that vegetation, we found a buried plastic border and a lot of landscape rocks also buried under grass and dropped Juniper needles.  There is a single Juniper stump left in that area (see picture below).  I've been gradually chipping away at digging it out.

The plan for this fall is to roto-till an area approximately 25' wide by about 35' long.  That would start roughly even with the upslope (south-facing) side of the Japanese maple area and head down roughly even with the southern face of the maple tree.  I will then install fence posts at appropriate distances apart and build fencing (design still in debate with Wifey who insists that "it must be pretty!") and a gate.  Adjacent to the property line (west side), we will also have another rectangle broken down into a few segments to allow for permanent plantings of asparagus, onions, and strawberries as well as three small segments for the kids to have their own gardens.

I also need to have a few extra inches of organically-amended topsoil trucked in to get us started.  If that central bed with the Japanese maple is an indication of the rest of the soil, the property has around 3" of topsoil with clay underneath.  I'd like there to be at least 5" of topsoil when I get started.  More is better.

By the time I'm done building this garden next Spring, the idea is to have the garden roughly 25'x65' (not including the permanent plantings and kids' gardens).  It'll be interesting to see what we actually end up with.  I'll be shocked if something doesn't get in the way of that.  I just don't have that kind of luck to have everything go completely seamlessly.

I'll sketch everything out at some point and post on here, but work has been busy and the home life has been moving at light speed since the family moved in (a month ago tomorrow).

As for fall plantings, I'm hoping to put in Egyptian Walking Onions and Garlic so we can harvest that next year.  Anything else is gravy.