Questions that landscapers have when starting a project, better define the scope, Questions are broad it is sometimes hard to know what they are asking
besides small projects, these are the bigger longer lasting goals:
- replace lawn with native plants
- manage stormwater
- 200-400sqft of vegetable garden
What are our interests? Narrow down what our goals are
Mostly just us, we do have occasional wildlife, a rabbit lives under one of the landscape bushes. We talked about some possibilities like old people and wildlife. Right now those do not seem important. Maybe deer would be a nuisance but right now they are pretty cool. We will be living here until we are old so that might become a concern.
previous notes; are these possibilities? Old people Are there ADA requirements, local requirements, old people, etc (move to question 8 maybe not) Deer, rabbits, wildlife
I think we will eventually want a small front porch for having tea and toast in the morning. Very small, just enough for two chairs. The front yard is mostly for looking, we do not have plans for it. We have a large deciduous tree on the city's road verge that provides shade during the summer. An outdoor kitchen on the back patio is in the plan. The backyard is meant to host the vegetable garden Side yards and the front yard may hold functional garden elements Behind the garage and adjacent to the fence may be the composting area If we do have parties in the backyard they will most likely be confined to the existing patio The front yard needs to allow for snow management near borders where there may be pedestrian traffic
We do have free time but want to plan around low maintenance. There are no watering systems but there is plenty of rain. Currently there is an abundance of lawn. We want to reduce the amount of lawn. Using large islands we hope to break up the lawn so there is minimal, possibly zero mowing necessary. Besides ocassional breaks in life, maximum once per week, and at least once per month we would like to do some garden work. During the winter there should be no garden work.
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K has a weird plan fro this - but E is starting to do this empirically. Does not need to be daily. Walk around the house. This might be easy to answer with a birds eye view of the house. This might not change that much throughout the year
See sun exposure
yes see Soil Stuff
Trees might be considered, check into local regulation on easements. I will call in to get this info, find out what our limitations are, also locate them on our property.
There are no overhead utilities. Power and communications are burried and located on the north side edge of the property and brought to the domicile underground. A main sewer pipe extends from the middle of the house diagonally towards the street adjacent corner of the property. These things will be mapped onto a planning document.
this seems difficult to answer