I’m doing an online garden design class – I decided I wanted to approach this new garden a little more planfully since I have so much more room than I’ve ever had before to deal with.
The pictures above are the first substantial home work – doing a detailed plan of the plot. I ended up splitting the back and front yards, since I will be treating them differently. This was really fun to do – I started with my city’s tax records online. Since my plot is so square (it’s 100×100 feet if you don’t include the city setback portion of the front yard), it was really easy to scale up from that plan. The class also had a few tricks for using Google maps that came in handy.
I do still need a couple things (mainly plotting the slope in the backyard) that I’ll need to do once the snow goes away (there’s just enough on the ground to make tramping around annoying).
The next part of the class is more around the actual design – that’ll be a treat in the depths of January.