Garden plan
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Garden plan
The plan for the main garden across the driveway from the main house has been put into SketchUp. and shows that the existing raised beds will be removed. The two smaller beds are running east west when they should be north south and the large bed is too big to access the interior of the bed. We want to make raised beds without wood sides running in a north/south direction. Starting two feet from the northern fence edge and two feet from the eastern fence edge, beds will be constructed that measure 4 feet wide and between 8 and 12 feet long. The beds will continue across with two feet between each bed so that there would be 6 beds across. If the beds are 8 feet long, there will be 3 rows of 6 beds and if the beds are 12 feet long, there will be 2 of 6 beds.
We're planning a chicken coop, built on the west side of the garden, between the big gate and the pear tree next to the kiwi arbor. A chicken wire fence would be run between the coop and the east side of the garden to keep the chickens out of the raised beds. Access to the chicken roost to collect eggs would be from outside the garden, next to the cottage carport.
There is a great need to deal with the water problem in the northeast area of the garden. Water is coming across the road and a ditch needs to be dug to divert the water around the outside of the fence on the north side.
I hope you'll all join me in the garden!
As of November 2007, the main garden has begun a process of expansion into the hayfield located at the Northeastern corner of the property. A new year-round farm care schedule will include the new design and planning for this garden area. Please check it out and join in! Ecology StewardShan 10:24, 4 December 2007 (PST)
