It all just boils down to sun, soil and water, and on a small, urban site, sun is the limiting factor.
I’m not going to show you the actual designing we did. It’s way too wild and messy for publishing. But this is an idealised, post hoc version. And, the ideas and principles learned in rural homesteading did help get it right in less than the decade or so it took us the first time. If nothing else, it taught us that this step is worth doing.
This is the house we moved into. A run down, unrenovated fibro cottage, built in the late 1950’s (and lived in by the same family…