I'm sort of an obsessive planner.
But to REALLY do a planned garden, you need to do it all at once, or in significant stages.
And there's no money for that size of project.
So when I moved, I used the upside down type of paint can that surveyors use and I drew out where my beds would be, where the shed would go, and even a little oval brick patio.
I started digging in the centers of the beds and started my compost pile with the sod I removed.
Gradually (as I collected plants) I widened the beds.
Then I finally got my hands on some free, good and flat shale (native) rocks for bed "walls".
Hefted them over the 4 foot fence all by myself, thank you,
AM still collecting plants and haven't quite got the stones "correctly" stacked yet.
But most of the grass is finally gone.
So I started with a full plan, but the execution is very go with the flow.
It's all fun.
