Argenta Gardener

Urban essay: A landscape, grounds keeping photo journal of transforming a weed lot into a garden. A "How we are doing it from scratch" web log. Topics include: grounds keeping, gardening, planning, landscape construction design, materials, equipment and supplies. Tools for lawn and turf care, tools for gardening, tools for landscape construction, and tool maintenance. Sources for tools and equipment, product evaluations and price comparisons. Garden project cost accounting.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Some Side Projects

The project to refurbish the bed in front spawned several other projects around the yard. I had careful plans for the bed, but for the other projects I just created a basic mental picture of how I wanted to finish the areas based on what would take place there. Thinking back now, I know that I was well aware of these areas being affected. In fact I had named them. I had formed rough estimates of each sub project. However I did not create written plans or draft any drawings. The next project that spawns sub projects will see separate plans drafted to spell the sub projects out in detail.
Some of the sub projects: