| | Share | | | Forward | | By hello@growdigital.org (Jake Rayson) on Apr 08, 2020 09:51 am | Making a plan for an irregular shaped garden can be tricky. Triangles, cosines and The Internet to the rescue | First off, a disclaimer. I’m shit at maths. Luckily, there’s clever people and the internet. I have a lovely design job at the moment and it has an irregular shaped rear garden. | The trick is to mark out (with small stakes if necessary) set points around the perimeter of the garden, and then make sure that there are 3 measurements from each point to other points (see image above). | If you know the three sides of a triangle, you can work out the angles in a triangle. Luckily, someone has made triangle-calculator.com, and if you can click on SSS you get to calculate “Side Side Side” triangles, with the click of a button: | Once you have the angles, you can use CAD software like QCAD, and re-create the triangle. This is fiddly and requires some CAD knowledge but totally doable (and the subject of a whole workshop in itself 😆). | Then you recreate the triangles, one from the other (hint, use duplicate and the Lines with given angle tool). When you’ve recreated all the triangles, rotate the whole outline to a known fixed point, which is usually the house. You can see, I’ve taken some measurements from the house in the first diagram, so that I can work from them. | Finally, delete the lines in the centre of the garden, and you are left with an outline. I know, it’s tricky and not as easy tracing the outline of a satellite photo but it’s one way of getting a plan of a smaller irregular garden. | Good luck! And the next blog post will be more plant-based 😎 🌱 | Read in browser » | | | Recent Articles: | Plants for a small forest garden | Free workshop 8 April—Protection | Free Online Workshops | 2020 Garden Trends Correction | 2020 Garden Trends | | | |
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