Step 3: Planning in rough lines

Its time for planning the rough lines for each area and make a connection between the areas and the buildings. Don't leave anything to itself.

Of course planning the kitchen garden takes more time, than to plan a clothes line.
Do you want raised beds or just a plan area, or both?
How big a green house can you keep up with?
Where do you store the gardening tools, where's the closest water source?

But even if the kitchen garden planned, you also want the surroundings to look nice and inviting and have some sort of system.

What about a garden path around the garden, that connects to all individual spots and areas?

When talking about garden path, be realistic and stop dreaming about twisted garden paths. You see it everywhere, holes in plants and bushes, where people step away from the path and takes a "shortcut."

People will allways take the shortest way possible. So draw a straight line from A to B, cause this is where the path will be, unless you physically make people go around by building a wall!

Remember this can be a 2 or 5 or even 10 year plan. The clothes line is perhaps another place right now, and it's working, so what do I do? I leave it where it is, and focus on creating the stuff, we don't have yet.
But... When building something new, I know where to place it, and when moving an area, I know where to move it.

Slowly the plan will come together on paper.