Anyone good with guesstimates?

spadoosh

Sorry if this is on the wrong board, but it is to do with the garden so thought good place to start.

im currently buying a house and this is the garden http://img218.imageshack.us/i/garden2v.jpg/
http://img841.imageshack.us/i/garsen1.jpg/

Im trying to work out a bit of a plan for the garden and have come stuck straight away with the measurements (unfortunately not any on ea's docs) I can find it out easily enough but being impatient want a rough guide to go off. Now im thinking its about 24' x 40' anyone else think they can guess more reliably (im aware its a picture and never easy to tell)

Also looking at any design ideas, my original plan is to split the garden with some sort of divider (trellis or bush) with the front half being formal and the rear being my veg plot:D:T!! The rear will house the shed/ghouse 3/4 main veg beds and trying to persuade the g/f to let me have a coop.... not going too well at the moment though!

So any ideas... what size? and good tips?

Bear in mind have never owned a garden but very keen and love DIY (work in a diy retailers) and want to do everything myself (incl building shed (hopefully))


Thank you for any comments!

kazwookie

From that photo it would be hard to guess at the size, as there are no markers to go by, ie fence panels etc.

Can you ask for a re visit and pace it out yourself, or ring the agent up and ask them, they will be charging the vendor to sell the hosue, so get them to do some of the work.

or borrow a yellow trundle wheel from a friend.

Love the idea of a 2 part garden.

mrbadexample

Judging by the fence panels, I'd say 24' is about right for the width, but I'd say that's longer than 40'. Looks a bit like mine, which is about 60'.

mrbadexample

kazwookie wrote: »

or borrow a yellow trundle wheel from a friend.

Why does it have to be yellow?

stumpycat

Go onto Google Earth, look up your house and there's a handy wee gizmo that lets you measure distances.
Mr Stumpycat has used this to plot out our garden, house, and even the width of the back hedge (5ft!) without having to get off his backside and use a tape measure...

spadoosh

Thanks for the replies!

Didnt think of google maps, good one! lookin at that its about 50-55ft.

We're going round at the end of next week for a full measure up and have a 25 m tape.

Planning on splitting the garden because my girlfriend wants a 'nice' area and somewhere to sunbathe (which i think will mean that the pond area is a no go ) I want a 'proper' garden or allotment to be more specific so hoping ill be able to screen most of it off and she doesnt notice the mess behind it!

Any

spadoosh wrote: »

Thanks for the replies!

Didnt think of google maps, good one! lookin at that its about 50-55ft.

We're going round at the end of next week for a full measure up and have a 25 m tape.

Planning on splitting the garden because my girlfriend wants a 'nice' area and somewhere to sunbathe (which i think will mean that the pond area is a no go ) I want a 'proper' garden or allotment to be more specific so hoping ill be able to screen most of it off and she doesnt notice the mess behind it!

It's like in our house, if it is not for eating I am not interested, my OH is landscape architect and not big fan of veg in general unless it comes with massive steak:-))

I only grow in patio boxes and it looks pretty, no mess.

When you are shielding it off just make sure you get lot of sun on your part.. don't build high fence just to shield off the sun.

spadoosh

Any wrote: »

It's like in our house, if it is not for eating I am not interested, my OH is landscape architect and not big fan of veg in general unless it comes with massive steak:-))

I only grow in patio boxes and it looks pretty, no mess.

When you are shielding it off just make sure you get lot of sun on your part.. don't build high fence just to shield off the sun.

Was thinking along the lines of peas & beans on trellis or more permanent berry bushes as the divider, obviously the peas wouldnt be year round though and dont really know of any winter climbers?!

Any

spadoosh wrote: »

Was thinking along the lines of peas & beans on trellis or more permanent berry bushes as the divider, obviously the peas wouldnt be year round though and dont really know of any winter climbers?!

Even berry bushes will take couple of years to grow... do you actually need dividers as such?

You could put some decorative green bushes to divide, just keep them quite low.. once you see how the sun is setting on the garden you will know better how tall they can go! You might be able to let them grow to your size if the garden is facing the right side.. as I say, once you are there you will get better ideas.

LilacPixie

sweetcorn as a yearly planted divider or rasps. I find sweetcorn is an effective windbreak

splodger_seedswapper

couple of practical questions that you need to answer (for yourself)

are you going to want that washing line area?
do you want that path

have you sussed out an area that you would like to sit / relax in
do you want an "entertaining" area?

at points there are high hedges from neighbours / boundaries - which are yours and which is theirs?

that's just for starters - more points will be forthcoming once you can establish in your head exactly what you want from the space and what control you have over it