How many hours a week do you spend gardening?

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1. We have a super brief growing season. So for 3 months I spend about an hour every day. And then nothing lol

   I do grow a lot of stuff year round in my house though.

2. 0

   I guess I do have 1 small spider plant tho but it gets water only when I remember

3. 0

4. 0 bc I dont have a green thumb and everything just ends up dying lol 😂

5. Zero. Mowing the lawn is not gardening

6. This time of year? zero. Spring/summer? 3 or 4 maybe?

   I have 4 4×8 boxes, 4 4×4 boxes, 3 2×9 boxes, a 3×6 box, random other planters, where i grow all sorts of herbs and veggies. apple trees, fig trees, peach trees, raspberry and blackberry bushes…

7. Most of us only call growing like edible plants and flowers and stuff gardening so that’s fairly rare. As for yard work, I don’t. People with houses trim grass

8. It’s still cool here but not frozen cold. We’re nearing our last possible frost date.

   I have peas sowed on president’s day. Recently I gave them a strung trellis.

   I have seeds indoors on my starting shelf. I might start sifting pots this weekend, I’m not certain.

9. 0, no yards, no gardens here

10. Out West, probably 7-10 a week minimum depending on how much I wanted to grow & how many weeds I needed to get rid of. Out East, zero because it’s so much more complicated with the weather and bugs and availability of light etc. In the UK, 7-10 but a lot for flower gardening & being happy to have a lovely “garden” in general.

11. Including all yard work, about an hour per week during the growing season, so maybe 5 months out if the year.

12. I recently moved away from a house with 5 fruit trees (apple and pear) and many raspberry and blueberry plants. I probably averaged 80 hours per year on those, but it was very concentrated (80 hours in 4 weeks, but most of the year nothing).

    My current house has no plants (not even grass), so none.

13. Almost none. My partner does the bulk of the yard work.

14. Not as much as I should! I’ve been focused on other things the past few years. I’m hoping to do better this year. But I won’t be growing many vegetables; instead I’m trying to turn my yard into a woodland glen filled with native and medicinal plants.

15. This time of year? Zero. It rains for like 8 months in a row.

16. I live in an apartment. I soak my air plants in water for 30 minutes once a week lol

17. It depends on the season.

    My grass hasn’t even began to grow yet and the earliest summer vegetables should be planted in my neck of the woods is May 20th. Large April snows aren’t unheard of here, and it can even be cold in early May sometimes.

    When my grass begins to grow, I cut it once a week, and it takes about 45 minutes or so with a gasoline push mower. I have some evergreen hedges (not sure what kind, honestly), but I usually run an electric trimmer to shape them up *maybe* once every two months to keep them from looking completely unruly and it takes less than fifteen minutes.I also have a backyard vegetable garden where I usually grow tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans, green onions, and jalapeños. I also grow a few pumpkins, but they get planted in early June. I spend maybe two to three hours a week tending to them. The vegetable garden requires more care when it’s just getting started or on especially hot days.

    However, my dad lives about five hours south of me and it’s already quite warm there – the grass is already green and quite a few wildflowers have blossomed. He lives on a large piece of rural property and his yard maintenance alone is pretty intense. It takes at least two to three hours on a riding mower (one of the old school ones, not one of the speedy zero turn mowers – I imagine it’d take a day or more on a push mower lol). He has a mini-orchard of about 12 apple and pear trees, a patch of blueberry and raspberry bushes, and an enormous vegetable garden. During the summer, he spends most of his time tending to everything, but he’s also 72 and retired, so gardening is his primary hobby and he really goes the extra mile with it.

18. Maybe 30 min max watering plants but that’s it. I live in an apartment.

19. I never really timed myself. I try to work on stuff each weekend. I do not count mowing the lawn gardening. Garden centers at Lowes and private companies have gotten a lot of my money.

20. Four, if you include tending the compost.

21. Zero. I live in an apartment with no garden. I don’t have the time anyway 🙁

22. I would estimate about 6-12 hours a week during the spring but that tapers off a lot toward summer. I have 4 days off at a time and spend a lot of that making sure my property is well suited to be used for summer. We get a ton of thistles and voles that like to wreck my yard so spring is busy trying to prevent that.

23. In the winter it takes about 30 minutes every week to tend to the indoor plants. In the summer I take about an hour per week for the outdoor plants and usually 2 hours when we pick crops. I don’t count watering the outdoor plants because it’s set on a timer, but if it wasn’t then probably an additional hour each day.

24. Quite a bit. We have a pretty large vegetable garden, a small orchard and a few berry plants. We also have some landscaped areas. I have 12 qu yards of mulch to spread tomorrow.

25. During the growing season probably an hour a day plus a couple hours each day on the weekends. My son mows the lawn but we have a full acre that’s landscaped so there’s always something to do. Pouring concrete for another raised garden bed foundation tomorrow. Gardening in the sense it will join the other 5 raised beds. This one will probably be all blueberries.

26. We plant the veg garden in mid-April and it usually produces til frost in October. It takes max half an hour a day for the garden, and we spend one or two hours each weekend on the flower beds. So three hours on the veg, two on the flowers, another hour for odds- six hours each week for most of the year.

    We did a lot of trimming in early February on dormant plants, so that week was five hours. Then we touched nothing the next whole month.

27. What’s a garden?

28. I grew a vegetable garden last year that I only watered during dry spells. Produced a ton of tomatoes. I maybe got 30 tomatoes per plant and I had 6 plants that made it the full season. Had a bit of the garden get destroyed by a series of severe storms. Then my pumpkin plants got sick and killed almost all that was left. I have a cactus that I take care of year round and plan to add more succulents. This year my wife is wanting to do a large butterfly garden and Im doing sunflowers again. The area that she wants to do it in though requires a bit of clean up. We had some rough weather that had made that part of the yard a mess. I’m stilling cleaning up buts and pieces of someone’s roof that was delivered to my yard on New Years Day via tornado. Then of course the garden at the front of the house is fun due to it being in shade most of the day. I kinda want to keep a small honey bee hive for the butterfly garden but not sure I want to go down that road just yet. All in all I probably spend an hour or so a week after the initial planting. I do all of my plants from seeds other than the succulents of course.

29. Zero.

    I have a yard but I be also have a yard guy. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

30. I just had 15k sq feet of fake grass put in, so I’m hoping I can spend about an hour a month killing weeds and that’s it.

31. 0-1 on average. I basically just mow the lawn and weed occasionally. I don’t do anything November-February.

32. In my area we have fire inspections to basically make sure you don’t have tons of dead brush so like right now like 10 hrs a week but during winter it’s more like 1-2

33. If my neighbor hasn’t already mowed my front yard it takes about 90 minutes to mow both front and back yards. I don’t do any gardening.