Where to put what beds and water retention
The 2020 spring rains show a definite improvement in the basement flooding this image talks about. Still some, but ditch digging by Star and friends has significantly improved water runoff to the east. The north side is now where we get more frequent basement leakage, in the wall under the kitchen. This is easy to see visually how it needs to be better sloped. But hard to work on. Rock hard when dry, a gooey mud mess when wet. The three drainage areas split a bit south of the west edge of the house. The current real problem is that the eastern drainage area hooks around the house and soaks into the ground with total saturation, causing basement leakage. The current situation there is exacerbated by the lack of a rain gutter on the porch, but even before that, total saturation rainfall led to leaks in basement.
Workers moved this bay window which will become the south front of the greenhouse, but for now needs to be stored near where it will be used.
Bay window and greenhouse materials stashed here, close to where it will be built, though that will be next year at the earliest.
barely visible streaks of falling rain drops. Big cloud, but only a raindrop or two per square meter per 30 seconds for about 10 minutes. From the deck the sun made them look like golden droplets, the cell phone caught them as golden streaks, not very many though.
Most of the year the central area here gets sun most of the day. The house casts a distinct shadow during the mornings but is in full blazing sun in the afternoons and evenings. This was my first explicit sun tracking video for this area and I've since decided a more accurate one, done from the roof, would be more better. This one is overly optimistic about how sunny it is, I think.
Morning light in kitchen garden, early fall
I think clothesline ought to go somewhere else other than take up garden space. Particularly since no one hardly uses except me, and even me not as much as I could have. Dryer is so much more convenient. Better wold be a pully system that keeps things high enough.
There's a very clear slope down toward top of photo, towards the upper pond. This should be a cross between an english formal garden and a japanese "natural" garden. Definitely will need to do something like mulch or rock paths.
