How much time do you have for gardenning?

[bikermike]

I was thinking about this. I reckon 3 weekends per month i get about a day to do it. Which is 9.30ish to 1ish and 2 tl 5.30, about 7 hours. So 21hrs/month for an allotment plot and a garden.

Anyone else?

[bario1]

I garden in little bits across the week, 20 minutes here, half an hour there, on my way to and from work. At the weekend I generally manage to get a couple of hours in on one of the days. I'd say in all I get 3-4 hours a week - less than I'd like, and just enough to keep on top of the plot and the garden at home. In the late Spring I usually end up taking a couple of days off work to blitz the plot, as there's just too much to do.

[Snadger]

Similar amount of total time for me, though more spread out. Seven days a week at 1/2 an hour to water stuff, mainly evenings. I usually have a 2 hour stint once a week depending on weather.

Total is roughly 25 hours per month at this time of year dropping to 15 hours per month during the winter period.

[veggiechicken]

All day every day but that's not to say I actually do any "gardening". Mostly I mooch around dreaming up ever more inutty deas.
Less (time) means more (achieved) as you normally have a job to do - and do it without being sidetracked.

I'm setting myself an hour a day target to work on something specific. Today is Weedy Wednesday when I choose a specific weed and spend an hour zapping every one I can find in the garden. FYI today its Hogweed which is about to seed itself everywhere.

[Small pumpkin]

I’m another all day everyday. Depending on my enthusiasm levels. Presently they’re quite low !

[bramble]

All day every day.
Pop in and out of the house.
Pop down the garden.
Ingo the greenhouse.
Or even sit in the garden and plan
Unfortunately I dont have a big garden.l
But I only have to walk out the back door.

[nickdub]

In theory I could spend all day most days gardening - in practice if I average an hour a week I'd be surprised (excluding watering) - too lazy, too inconsistent and too much of an aversion to being wet and cold.

[Bren In Pots]

I’m another all day everyday

Me too, I just love being outdoors pottering around.

[Greenleaves]

Another all day everyday in theory.

But always 3 x 8 hours a week

[Babru]

I get out for a bit most days, which adds up to maybe 4 or 5 hours a week at this time of year. My garden is under development ie half of it is mounds of earth or covered with bags of gravel etc. OH has a four year plan.

Once it's finished, I would plan to spend a full day a week out there. Trouble with that is the weather doesn't play ball. You set aside a day for weeding and it turns out windy and stormy. The nice day is when you have other plans..... Oh well, first world problems!

[roitelet]

Not enough!!!! and I’m retired.

[SarrissUK]

Same - not enough! I water my back garden three times a week, at most two hours in total. Maybe another hour or two a week on pottering at home, and time to clean out the chicken.

The allotment tends to get no more than four or five hours a week, so all in all I'd say around 20 hours a month.

[Scarlet]

I'm out most days - I get less done In the summer though as I don't like the heat and the ground is solid. We've had some rain over the last couple of weeks so yesterday I was out most of the day - today my hands were so sore from weeding. I must wear gloves
Though I do get sidetracked with...taking photos, saving cuttings, bagging seeds and losing tools.

[Snoop Puss]

^ Losing tools... the bane of my life. Mr Snoop and I often share tools and it's one of the main sources of arguments. The rake is the worst. You'd think it nigh on impossible to lose a rake. We have three and I have no idea where any of them are. And I'm going to need one in about an hour or so.

So, time. An hour and a half every day watering plus a few other hours fiddle faddling about. Maybe 18 in total a week at the moment. Should be more, though. It's a lot more in spring, that's for sure.

[Thelma Sanders]

In theory I could spend all day most days gardening

My bad back means that I can only manage about 2hrs a day on the allotment, and then only if it isn't cold/wet/windy. That's enough at this time of year, but I struggle to keep up in the spring - that's why the beds get covered for the winter, it cuts down on the spring workload.
Garden at home gets more of my time because I can pop out and do a bit at a time Have 3 greenhouses so can also work in there when the weather's not playing ball.

I've always spent more time on the garden than on housework, though