Early 19th century North American home & garden.
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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.