Staging a project across seasons and budgets
Very few gardens get built in one go. Stage it so each phase is usable, nothing gets dug up twice, and the planting lands in the right season — which in Perth means autumn, not spring.
Not planted yet — but the plan for it is final
The practical task and the checklist below are exactly what this lesson will teach. What is missing is the written explanation and the curated links, each one fetched and verified before it ships.
In the meantime the checklist is genuinely usable on its own. Take it outside.
Do this on your own block
Field journal entry
Staging plan
Break your project into stages with a budget and target season for each. Ensure services and drainage precede surfaces, irrigation precedes soil and planting, and each stage leaves the garden in a usable state.
Saved to your workbook
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Checklist
- No stage requires undoing a previous stage
- Planting stages land in autumn where possible
- Each stage has its own budget and leaves the site usable
- Approval lead times sit in front of the stages they gate