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  • How much time do you have for gardenning?

    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?

  • #2
    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.
    He-Pep!

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    • #3
      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.
      My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
      to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

      Diversify & prosper


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      • #4
        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.

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        • #5
          I’m another all day everyday. Depending on my enthusiasm levels. Presently they’re quite low !

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          • #6
            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.

            And when your back stops aching,
            And your hands begin to harden.
            You will find yourself a partner,
            In the glory of the garden.

            Rudyard Kipling.sigpic

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            • #7
              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.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Small pumpkin View Post
                I’m another all day everyday
                Me too, I just love being outdoors pottering around.
                Location....East Midlands.

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                • #9
                  Another all day everyday in theory.

                  But always 3 x 8 hours a week

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                  • #10
                    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!
                    Mostly flowers, some fruit and veg, at the seaside in Edinburgh.

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                    • #11
                      Not enough!!!! and I’m retired.
                      Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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                      • #12
                        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.
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                        • #13
                          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.

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                          • #14
                            ^ 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.
                            Last edited by Snoop Puss; 22-08-2019, 07:47 AM.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by nickdub View Post
                              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

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