My priorities would be:
Swales to catch more water and make sure you get rainwater off every hard surface into a barrel or underground reservoir.
The swales help break the wind and the woodchips (the chunkier, the better, the ones made solely from thick tree bark are best and will add more diversity as well) will stay moist longer and will not blow away so easily, laying in the swales. They can be like productive footpaths, mix with edible mushroom mycelium and spores, when you design them like a bendy river its most efficient, it maximizes surface area on which plants can grow, while still having good reach when pruning and harvesting.
Nitrogen fixing trees (acacia) and bushes (blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, rosebush) to break the wind, give shade, habitat for birds (fertilize with their poop), and mulch.
Sunflowers and buckwheat (fixes nitrogen) have big deep roots that help drainage and once dead help aerate the soil as they dry out, thistles and dandelion are also great for that and make lots of minerals bioavailable to the topsoil.
Add a couple of of dandelion leaves to your salads and soups for great healthbenefits. Nettle is amazing and a really great sign, it means the soil where it grows is very fertile. Makes a soothing tea that reduces inflammation, provides compounds that your body uses to create serotonin and helps with sleep.
Woodsorrel is very hardy and stimulates mycorrhizal fungi it seems, looks like clover but isn’t.
Clover fixes nitrogen. Crimson clover (red cone shaped flowers) has been most resilient in my experience.
DO NOT mow your grass. Just throw the seeds in the grass, they will germinate and grow through the shallow grass roots very easily. I have discovered that my best results and biggest harvests were from vegetables growing in the midst of wild grass.
Tall grass provides lots of shade, keeps the ground cool, prevents erosion, creates habitat for frogs and lizards, makes things more difficult for snails, and harvests lots of dew, that drips and slides down the blades into the soil.
Grass comes with its own mycorrhizal fungi so it keeps parasitic fungus at bay.
Marigolds look pretty, attract beneficial insects and fix nitrogen.
Calendula is also very pretty and greatly stimulates mycorrhizal fungi, you’ll see the white fungi appear on their leaves, it’s a good thing.
What I would do is not seperate the species, I’d mix all the seeds together and throw them by the handfuls, let Mother Earth figure it out, she is wiser and smarter than any of us, she created us.
