How much time do you spend on your garden?

habitat_gardener · March 17, 2009

The thread on the resurgence of food gardening said the average is 5 hours a week. I spend more than that, even in the winter.

From Dec. to Jan. it's 5-7 hours a week: planting garlic, onion starts, and strawberries, maintaining cloches or row cover over new brassicas or peas or tender perennials, picking kales, and playing with the compost. I'm not including any Tomatoville time, or time spent deciding what to plant and buying and trading seeds.

This time of year, I usually spend 8-15 hours a week: tending to seedlings, watering once the rains stop, weeding, potting up extra plants to give away, redoing trellises, picking greens, playing with the compost, etc.

In the summer, it's more like 15-20 hours a week: half an hour a day (or more) picking raspberries and blackberries, as well as chopping up compostables, picking (and weighing and recording) tomatoes, making various plant/compost teas, playing with the compost, etc.

How much time do you spend on your garden?

March 17, 2009	#1
habitat_gardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: California Central Valley Posts: 2,543	How much time do you spend on your garden? The thread on the resurgence of food gardening said the average is 5 hours a week. I spend more than that, even in the winter. From Dec. to Jan. it's 5-7 hours a week: planting garlic, onion starts, and strawberries, maintaining cloches or row cover over new brassicas or peas or tender perennials, picking kales, and playing with the compost. I'm not including any Tomatoville time, or time spent deciding what to plant and buying and trading seeds. This time of year, I usually spend 8-15 hours a week: tending to seedlings, watering once the rains stop, weeding, potting up extra plants to give away, redoing trellises, picking greens, playing with the compost, etc. In the summer, it's more like 15-20 hours a week: half an hour a day (or more) picking raspberries and blackberries, as well as chopping up compostables, picking (and weighing and recording) tomatoes, making various plant/compost teas, playing with the compost, etc. How much time do you spend on your garden?