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Greenhouse vegetable garden layout8/18/2023 ![]() ( Pinterest will do that to ya!) But since we’ll need to cover the garden most of the year, it made more sense to build simple rectangular beds that we can install low tunnels over. Originally I was thinking triangles, trapezoids, and even a star-shaped bed as a central feature. While I’d love to have meandering paths through the yard that lead from one outdoor “room” to the next, I also love symmetry so I wanted a geometric design that was linear, but not boring. I spent a few days mulling over different ways to lay out the raised beds in the vegetable garden. Related: 5 Super Effective and Humane Ways to Keep Deer Out of Your GardenĬan you picture our future vegetable garden in this spot? The vegetable garden ![]() We’ll also let the existing aspens grow as a privacy screen. Our new house will be built exactly where the mobile home currently is, so the circular driveway will remain the same.Ī deer fence will divide the property in half where the house is, with the front (western) portion landscaped with perennial bulbs, wildflowers, and deciduous and evergreen trees. This is the same drone shot, but with a rough overlay of where things will be. But we plan to be here for a long time, so we wanted to minimize the possibility of any new owner building a two-story house and blocking our light. I know it sounds crazy to think that far ahead of how the neighbor might affect our future views and sun exposure. The neighbor to the south also has an open expanse of grass, and with the county’s solar setback codes, we’re not likely to lose any sun if and when that neighbor sells his home. That glorious south-facing pasture is a big part of why we bought this land. We have 1 1/2 acres on a flat, wedge-shaped lot with full southern exposure.įor reference, the top of this image (as well all other images and drawings in this post) points north. Here’s a drone shot of our property (with the existing mobile home). ![]() ![]() (We changed our minds while I was writing this post, and are reworking how we want the chicken run to look and function.) I’ll also give you a glimpse into how we’re working the chicken coop and chicken run into the garden design, though the details of that area will be a separate post. I’ll show you how and where I’m siting the vegetable garden and all the other components of our yard (like our future greenhouse, food forest, and swimming pond). I had many nagging “If this was my garden…” thoughts over the course of those seven years and took plenty of mental notes for the day I could plan, design, and execute an edible garden from scratch. There were times I wished I could’ve moved a tree or widened the paths or designed parts of it differently, but we were renting so we couldn’t really alter it structurally. You see, I loved growing in my first garden in Southern California, but most of it was laid out by the previous owners. Since we’re living on site for the foreseeable future, we’re going to start building a brand-new garden from the ground up, which has been my dream for a long time coming. ![]() Today’s post is long, and there’s a lot to cover so I’m going to dive right in.Īs I previously mentioned, my family and I decided to move into the mobile home on our new property and postpone construction of our house. Get yourself a cup of coffee or a frosty beverage, my friend, and settle in. ![]()
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