Keep It Close & Line It Up

Early 19th century North American home & garden.

Vegetables, herbs, fruits, water, livestock, above, all close.
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Sustainable meant a lot more in this era.  Lose your crops/livestock & your family could die.
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Keeping things close is easier maintenance & to protect.  Obvious but overlooked.
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Often I'm asked to site a playset or child's vegetable garden.  The requests arrive with a wave of the hand pointing to the back, somewhere.  Somewhere.
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Patio/deck areas are often a sunny spot.  Perfect for a vegetable garden in large pots, 24" diameter, with several things stuffed into each.  Ha, yes, I site the pots too.
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Garden & Be Well,   XO Tara
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Notice the Landscape Design tool in the pic?  All the lines: fence, trees, vegetables, herbs, paths, dependencies are lined exactly parallel or perpendicular with the home.