Re: Buying land: What should you look for?
- From: m.purves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 15 Nov 2005 11:05:34 -0800
dasunt@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> For the plots I'm considering, the local power lines either border the
> property, or run close by.
>
> I spend part of the day traipsing around one of the plots today before
> the rain and the setting sun drove me away.
>
> Good points: Scenic. Possible short driveway to a paved road.
> Possible house-site 50 yards from the road. Short driveway, but the
> slope would hide the house from the road.
I'd consider 50 yards way too close to the road - if the road has any
traffic.
I'm one of those people who hate noise.
> Bad points: The property tends to slope north (with a few gullies
that means it'll be quite a bit colder. Makes for a shorter growing
season.
> leading to east/west slopes). The only house-site that I found drops 1
> foot every 10 feet. Is this going to be a problem for a garden? All
depends on how good the drainage is and how much rain you get.
Our lot where we live does on average, and it's quite steep in places.
Do you have to have the garden right by the house?
> my previous gardens have been on southern slopes. This may seem silly,
> but my previous, smaller gardens, have halved my food bills during much
> of the year.
on the northern slope you'll get a shorter growing season (or have to
grow
hardier crops). Consider the microclimate there. Is this really what
you want?
> My wife suggested we could try terraced gardens on the ridge. Has
the ridge gets the most wind (if any. If you got tall trees all around
wind
may not be a consideration, but that has its downsides too, like
stagnant
cold as well as heat - and humidity).
> anyone had any experience in terracing wooded country
not me (yet) - still very slowly terracing the parts that aren't
wooded. I have to
bring in the dirt to fill this, I'm on bedrock (and in a very different
climate).
Maren
Tropical seeds - Job's Tears Jewelry - Plants & Lilikoi
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~maren/palms_etc/
.
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