Wednesday, September 21, 2011

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.

2 comments:

  1. You are ultra clever, Tara, my friend! Still not taking off that word verification, huh? Pretty please!
    Brenda

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  2. I get all of this. You are completely brilliant! I ordered the book by Russell Page "Education of a Gardener" I have read one chapter. It is so fascinating to me.

    I have never studied any of this.....but I am reading about gardens I have seen in books and magazines..so I guess I have studied.

    I just didn't know I was studying!

    You are so wonderful!!! You are such a brilliant teacher!

    Thank you for everything!

    Penelope

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