Garden design can be easy. Creating your plan and then laying out important components in your garden can help you determine if your garden plan works for you. Simple methods will give you a visual interpretation of your plan and your garden vision. The original garden plan is flexible and laying out the design will allow you opportunity to note what needs to change. (Video #121)
100 ft. Tape Measure: https://amzn.to/2NOc9HZ
This is the fourth video in this series:
First video, “Observation”: https://youtu.be/EG0jX2ob1_c
Second video, “The Vision”: https://youtu.be/4RblNDYHRVE
Third video, “Vision Bubbles”: https://youtu.be/Q1cyEpSMtWE
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Thank you for sharing🤗
Excellent advice Scott. can the pergola be built during winter?
Thank you for showing your process. I just moved to a new place and am thinking about how I'm going to put my gardens together.
Great video as usual Scott. I am preparing to move to my new home soon and have stocked up on stakes as well as various colored engineer tape. That way I can color code hard scape and bed types as well as plan for the trees and shrubs. The trees and shrubs will be indicated by a single stake and piece of tape while the hard scape will be fully outlined. In this way I can walk the area and if I change my mind (I will) I can just move the stake(s). The stakes and tape will gradually be replaced by projects and plants but will also serve as a reminder of the final goal.
I should have done it more like this lol 😂
Congratulations on your new home! I am excited to see how your garden will unfold. One question: Is gorilla hair – redwood bark – equivalent to coro noir for worm bedding?
I think your right on target, thank you for all of your informative videos
I'm totally re-doing my back yard garden this year. Your video is very helpful. My garden is viewable from the back so I have to make it look good from both ends.
Hi G.S., Another nice video for us all! Great subject. Last year when we redesigned the yard again we took the same approach of mapping it out and adjusting. It gives you time to sit on it and let it sink in as other ideas come up. Perhaps even consider how the sun passes over your yard in the growing season to maximize your growth or shade needs. And consider any potential drainage issues you may need if you have any raises in your land or where the rain runs during bad weather, so you can account for that as well. On a side note, I can't wait to see how my blueberries do this year and how much my soil ph level has gone down after working on it last year.
You're right you can't trust a drawing not even 3D for the final design(goofy results). You have to have a scale model to feel what's really going on and how it all fits together. Never done landscape design but it should work the same. Your model was actually laying it out on the ground. No better way I guess. I'd like to learn all about chickens.
Thank you for this how to. I'm going to attempt to start again this year. Let's hope my 5th attempt will be better than the last.
Brilliant video, full of wonderful, sensible advice. I'll put these ideas in practice when I move to my next home, later this year hopefully. I'm looking forward to seeing how your garden develops.
Initially when I went in for an allotment 8 years ago it was because I had not got anywhere near enough room to grow what I wanted to. I live on a hill about a 30deg slope down wards away from the house. One third of the space was a tarmac drive.I had to level part of the garden by building a brick wall on the bottom of the slope fill it up with rubble and soil to get it level. I also incorporated a cupboard for tools as well .I have also had to build 3 raised beds and now a 4th one planned with a composting area underneath to utilise all available space.It has worked out well.
Great ideas.
I sure wish I was starting out with a blank slate. We just moved to an old farmhouse and it has trees and shrubs just randomly stuck "wherever". I don't want to take any out–they are large, well-established trees, etc. But I sure would like a big blank slate just once in my life.
I’m based out of CO also and just recently subscribed to your videos! If you need a hand with building, I would very much enjoy learning from you and helping in any way that I can. I am currently working on cleaning out and designing a garden as well!
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Can’t wait to see future videos as this project progresses. Thanks for taking us along! 👍🏻
Yes! I have to get my vision on paper then go see how it flows in the garden. Designed 10 new beds for 2020 and even preparing how the garden will evolve next year depending on what worked well.
I've moved on to the building and then planning phase…;) Building it on a slope so I had to build a three sided retaining wall, 15 yards of dirt this weekend! Then I'll plan once I can walk on it…
What a beautiful garden you have. We our redesigning ours this year and I am wondering how you have such weed-free, dry pathways in between your beds. This is our biggest problem — keeping the weeds down between beds.
I’m going to be building a new garden, I will have as much space as I need, so I’m wanting to make sure the garden isn’t too loose and spread out, definitely going to use your on ‘paper first’ method! What about water lines, did you dig in irrigation lines to your beds? Thank you! 😊
My garden, once it's in place will be a lot like yours in that it will be behind the house that faces West. I will be clearing as much of the trees that I need to clear in order for the garden to get the sun it needs. There are some pine trees on the North side of the property that I would like to leave in place for the protection from weather coming from the North like you mentioned in a previous video and the width of the property is about 525 feet. I would like to include some nuts trees (miniature ones if possible) in addition to the fruit trees, where would you suggest putting those?
I've used my computer and some software called Microsoft Visio to draw out the space. I also use the drawing to plan out my vegetable layout for each season. Then I used T Post and String to see it physically laid out.
Hello Scott, what is the overall size of your garden?