Garden Plan
My brother and I have have been discussing how we want to shape the garden and more importantly how we can grow a good crop of veg and herbs to eat from. After much discussion my brother found a very good piece of software for garden landscaping.
We had a play, but weren't satisfied with the accuracy, so decided to venture out into the garden (very cold it was too). Whilst my brother took many photo's get a better picture of size and what were dealing with I took some measurements.
Back to the software I pretty much started over and have now roughly planned out the garden with the existing patio, some trees and shrubs already there.
The garden slopes so each raised bed will need to essentially be a step whilst leaving the rest as a natural slope, most likely the path too.
We hope to have this as both a source of food throughout the year and a little nature haven to escape to and meditate.
The top right area specifically will have many wild flowers commonly found in British forests and we hope to nurture fungi and other parasitical type plants (mistletoe being one of them). I had wanted an Oak, but you need a good degree of land due to the shear size and roots that come with an Oak.
I've already drawn up a task list of some things we need to do and my brother is going to book some time off so we can spend a week prepping it, making it an almost blank canvas to begin shaping it.
I estimate that we can have a basic foundation done by around end of May, but that it will take the better part of a year to get it to resemble my drawn up plan.
Comments
Ho hum!
I find it hard to really tell the size of it all properly, as I'm really bad at picturing spaces and sizes in relation to other things, as opposed to with actual measurements. However, it does look very nice! Looks like a very spacious garden, too, which has me quite jealous! What's the size like between each bed?
With the seemingly incoming Spring/sun, that garden looks extremely appealing for sitting back in the evenings with a cold drink. Oh how I miss my old garden, heh!
In all honesty their is a
In all honesty their is a limit to the accuracy of this diagram, it's a rough plan taking on board rough measurements, though it is a spacious garden (will show images once they've been stitched).
Since visiting a garden centre where they had full sized trees it was a good measure to see the space required around a tree.
Some parts in retrospect will need to be revisited.
Overall though this is a very good likeness of what we have to work with.
As for space between the beds easily two feet wide (as in your feet not literal feet). We are using raised beds so can easily sit on the wood sleepers when tending the beds.
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