Help! Where the heck do I start ?
I've had to join both the gardening and homesteading communities tonight as I beseech thy sage-like assistance and advice...
My house and the wife's clinic is now finished and liveable. The clinic will have a soft opening at the end of the month and for the first few months will most likely be spending the week down on Samui before trekking the 550 miles up to Bangkok on a Friday night so se can keep on her cases up here. There are still endless little jobs to do indoors but nothing major that can't be done on an ad-hoc basis so now it's time to turn my attention to the outside.
So the situation is this; Its a fairly rectangular shaped plot of land of just under 4 acres. Upon it now sit two houses, side by side at the front. Our house and her sisters house and as she lives in Scotland, its where the parents live.
My initial suggestion of building a 12 foot wall between the houses, topped with razor wire, CCTV and armed Burmese migrants in an attempt to keep the in-laws at bay didn't pass the planning committee of 1 so new plans need to laid.
In all seriousness, and despite my love of big projects and my excitement at getting started, I'm feeling genuinely overwhelmed and in turmoil over how to kick this all off. Budget of course, is also an issue.
My thoughts so far are as follows; I need a drive way which comes in through the front wall where the gap is and will stop at the bottom of the wheelchair ramp as I have just been told, I must have a designated disabled spot as part of my clinic licensing requirements. This will probably be edged in brick and the surface will be fine gravel over a weed prrof fabric and polythene to let the huge torrents of water run off and onto the street. The land has a slight slope and we're at the bottom! This drive will also extend down the side to gie me vehicular access to the rear where I want a garage which will really be a workshop and mancave. If you see the wife, please don't mention this part!
I also want to grow veggies around the back so I guess I'll need to create some raised beds and fill them with bags and bags of the soily, composty, peaty stuff they sell cheaply at the garden centres. The ground here is 85% sand and apart from coconuts and weeds, appears totally unsuited to growing anything of use.
Further back the land is completely uncultivated and is practically virgin forest, full of snakes and other bitey things so I've no idea how to attack that looking well into the future.
The easy part. A driveway but I'm not going to get away with covering the whole area! Notice the fallen coconut tree...
...which blew over in what we in the UK would call 'a light breeze'! See the tiny hole it came out of? Coconut trees must be the wimpiest trees in the world. I've still got to burn and chop it up though. More bloody work!
The wall will also need sorting and a nice border creating. I keep digging out shite the scruffy builders left behind every time I go in for a session with the strimmer.
Because the house was built too high, I had to infill around it with hundreds of tons of sandy soil and also need to put a concrete boundary path around the edges.
A few metres back to the rear, the land is fairly flat and gets trimmed back, the soil quality is terrible.
Peering through that lot, somewhere in the distance is the rear boundary marker but heaven knows where. I've never even tried to hack my way through to find it.
Every chance they possibly get, new coconut and banana trees try to sprout up at ridiculous speed. More to be chopped down and dug out.
Not sure whether to build a retaining wall here and level the land to the house. Might be a big job for little benefit other than my obsession with neat and straight!
So come on, please guys. You're the experts. What would you do? Where would you start? I need to be constantly motivated to keep at it and I'm at a loss. Please look through the photos and tell me your thoughts.
Thanks in advance.
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Not a bad position to be in sir. Good times. That's a cool looking house too.
Thank you :-) im just a little overwhelmed at the amount of 'normal' adulting and list of stuff that needs doing with both the business and house. I've never been good at multitasking and juggling so many irons in the fire. I'm not moaning as I do understand how fortunate I am but 'stuff' is getting on top of me a bit. I need to stop standing still and looking and thinking and instead start being more organised and methodical in my approach and being as I am, not finding it easy. I'm always so in awe of folks who appear on the outside at least to be so sorted!
"It'll be reet' as we'd say in Ponty !
Thanks again for calling by and sorry about the whining . Take care guys :-)
That sounded a lot more like authenticity than whining. Or, read like, you know what I mean.
Overwhelming is an accurate description.
SeemslikeThere's never nothing to do. Gather your materials, have the tools you need on standby. If you need a specialty tool, don't hesitate for another day, just get it. As weather permits, make some progress until it's all done.That second part was to myself but you're welcome to use it = }
You're absolutely right of course. Thanks, I just needed a reminder. One foot in front of the other and you get there in the end :-)
Have a great weekend.
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4 acres of land, oh that is really big. The garden I have shared lately is just a home lot of 240 square meters.
How I wish to have a big lot for a small house and a big part is for a garden.
I noticed there's a lot of trees like coconut in your lot. For sure fruit trees is also good in that land. Since your land is 85% sand, you can also made a hole and put your fruit and vegetables wastes there and make a compost until you will have that good soil to be used for planting.
@jenthoughts thank you! Starting a compost bin is a wonderful idea to get me going! There are many different fruit trees there so I'm not sure about being able to plant things because of all the shade, especially vegetables. We will see, one step at a time but at least I can follow you now for inspiration!
Thank you again and best wishes to you and your family. Happy growing :-)
Yes that's true, you cannot plant vegetables under the fruit trees because your plants can't get enough sunlight.
But you can also plant vegetables in the other side where there is no fruit trees and that your plants can see the sun.
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Ohhh thank you so much @diyhub and @priyanarc . Bless you both :-)
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I had to laugh at the armed Burmese guards plan hahahahha
As for the vegetable growing would you consider a hydrophonic bed or tower instead since of the soil quality that you have. Although you do have a lot of land so space is not really a problem.
As for the other stuff I don't know hahaha but nice to see your plans.
MAVVVV how nice to see you fella and you're a genius! Hydroponics are definitely a good option. There was a guy on here from the US who had a huge set-up in Malaysia. Not seen hime for a while so I'll have to have a search and read- up.
Thanks again, and have a brilliant weekend mate :-)
nice place and great clinic. I wish you a prosperous future
I hear you have been downvoting @twicejoy and @leemah1 allegedly because you think they are the same person? If that is the reason for the downvotes I can assure you they are separate individuals... also it wouldn't even be against any "rules" to have separate accounts, nothing is to stop people making more than one account. However of course this isn't the case here, it's pretty plain to see. Just curious what the motivation is?
Sorry, who are you?
His allegations are incorrect and I stopped down voting his wife when he stopped throwing out 4 Leo posts within two hours claiming two were from her.
Now I downvote him because I disagree with his actions onchain.The way he acts on chain is his choice, as is the way I act. I will continue to downvote him.
What actions did I do wrong on chain @nathen007
And about my wife.. she only made one Leo post per day
You can act anyway you choose, as can I. You don't question huge upvotes you receive but yet complain about 2c downvotes. Strange.
Hmmm... Now I get your point
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Hey, just saw it now.. a little late :-)
how far did you come with the garden and the parking place for clinic guests?
Do you have a plan of the land and the two houses, so we can imagine better, what, where and why? Sorry that your 12 feed wall was rejected by "your house governement" ;-) !LOL
looks like the wheel chair ramp is on the wrong side of the house? wouldnt be better on the left, where you can drive in???
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