2012 Kick-Off

It is officially time to get to work on the 2012 garden. (Yes, I do realize that I missed most of 2011... I'll post a few additional snapshots a bit later on.)

Now that we'll actually be in the house for the entire planting season, I'm going back in action and getting the plans ready for our first full-fledged veggie garden. While the long-term master plan calls for the "working" garden to be at the back of the property, there is still a LOT of work that needs to take place to clear out the area so that it can house the garden. It is currently still very overgrown and has way too many trees to have enough light. That means that the current plan is to once again site the vegetable garden in the front of the house. 

The current plan calls for the creation of at least 6 new beds which will provide approximately 275 sq.ft. of planting space. Considering the garden at our old house topped out at about 100 sq.ft. it will be quite an increase. The beds will be just slightly raised unlike the beds at the old house which were up about 11 inches. These are eventually going to be converted to perennial beds, so I don't want them to be very high.

Here's the current planting plot...

2012 Planting Plan

As you can see, the overall shape is more or less a triangle, due to the shape of the space. The approximate location is indicated by the orange arrow on the very aspirational master plan below.  (It is side down in the plan view). The longest side borders the sidewalk to the front door. The three empty triangles are still TBD. They most likely will be paved and then hold either the concrete standards, potted plants, or may be planted out with standard roses and / or an arbor.

The "Master Plan"

Here's a current view of the "Master Plan". I'm working from front to back, so currently the only thing complete are the beds at the top right of the image which is the side that borders the street. (You can see the eventual long-term location for the veggie garden at the bottom right.) Of course this version of the plan does not take into account the CRAZY slope at the back of the lot, or the location of the massive trees that will eventually have to come down. You can at least get a feeling for what it might look like some day!