DH spends about 3 hours a week. He loves it, but it annoys me. He always picks the nicest day of the weekend, and it takes up 3-4 hours in the middle of the day. Then he's too tired (understandably) to want to go out and do something substantial afterward.
Post by turkletsmom on Apr 18, 2015 11:40:53 GMT -5
On average zero. We pay a kid down the street to mow the lawn and we have a pretty low maintenance garden. Once a year we spend a solid day adding fresh mulch and plants to the garden. We just occasionally pull weeds as needed which takes 5 minutes every few months.
Post by crashgizmo on Apr 18, 2015 11:53:16 GMT -5
Right now, about 30 minutes. We only have a lawn in the front yard, and DH mows it pretty quickly. Our backyard will be landscaped in the next few months, and more work will come then. We are looking at zero scape options, but I will likely have a garden of sorts.
Probably an hour or two. We have a service that takes care of the yard and does a spring and fall clean up. I take care of all the weeding and trimming of the shrubs and flower beds, but I enjoy that part. We have a small vegetable garden that DH maintains.
Post by WinterWine on Apr 18, 2015 12:32:03 GMT -5
Around 3 hrs. I'm actually sitting inside procrastinating doing it right now. I despise yard work. We have a 10x10 section of grass that's totally manageable. But loads of landscaping and the week's never end. I really want to pay someone but I'm cheap and feel like it's reasonable to pay for lawn mowing but would've super expensive to pay for all the weeding, trimming. I should probably actually get it quoted out sometime though. And that was wordy- #endrant
Most weekends about an hour. H mows while I pull weeds in the garden beds. Once every 6 weeks or so we spend half a day out there trimming, raking, planting, or whatever needs to be done. We designed our yard to be low maintenance.
A few hours/week April through November. We have a small yard with not much actual lawn but a lot of landscaping, plus several raised vegetable beds. I enjoy most of it, though. I could do without picking up dog poop or cleaning the deck, though.
Post by FishChicks on Apr 18, 2015 17:10:00 GMT -5
6 to 8 in the spring and summer to try to keep up with the weeds. I pay someone to mow and also pay for spring clean up. Nearly an acre, fully landscaped.
Post by belovedbride07 on Apr 18, 2015 19:24:52 GMT -5
Right now, about 45 minutes/week, but it should be about 1.5-2 hours to keep up with all of the weeding and trimming that should happen. We're looking at hiring a Task Rabbit sometime next month to help us catch up; I have terrible allergies (and am just a weakling when it comes to manual labor in the sun) and can't work out there for too long and DH is not the most motivated when it comes to the flower beds. We can't wait to buy our own house and put in low-maintenance landscaping!
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10 minutes per week picking up dog poop out back. About 10 minutes every other week for H to mow the teeny tiny backyard. It takes almost as much time to dig the mower out of the garage and lug it back and forth than to actually mow the yard.
Front yard is mowed by association. We share front landscaping with retired neighbor- we all pull weeds as we notice them coming or going from the house.
Post by Doggy Mommy on Apr 18, 2015 20:29:10 GMT -5
Not much historically, I hate yard work, but the yard is looking neglected and we're going to put more effort into it. Last year I re-finished the deck and this year I'm almost done staining the fence. I think with about 4-6 hours a week and some new shrubs etc I can make it look a lot better.
Post by LoveTrains on Apr 18, 2015 20:47:50 GMT -5
On average? 10 minutes I suppose.
But that's because we will go weeks doing nothing and thend spend 1-2 hours on yard work.
During this past winter there was no yard work, but we probably spent four hours a week (if not more) shoveling snow. Since the snow has melted (about a month ago), all we have done is spend about 2 hours spreading some new mulch and doing some weeding and spring clean up.
We haven't really had a long enough spring to require weeding, though. We have a postage stamp size back lawn that I mow about once a month with an electric lawn mower. It takes about 10 minutes and is like vacuuming.
On average, 4-6 hours/ week. I love gardening. The centuries of farmer comes out in me and I love making things grow. I'm xeriscaping the yard at our lake place (who wants to water/ mow at the lake?!) and just spend about 18 hours weedidnt, planting new plants and relocating plants that I was unhappy with the location of. I'm exhausted but so happy. Finally! Everything where I want it to be :-)
In the Spring and Fall, lots. Maybe 6-7 hours plus a weekend. We have a shitton of trees which = lots of raking/clean up. I also have been trying to get the beds in shape (edging, etc.) since they were neglected for a long time so once that is done, I imagine that it will be a much smaller task to keep up in the future. We do mulch every other year and this is the year so I am sure we have a long weekend of spreading yards and yards of mulch coming up. But I hope to hire some neighborhood kids to help with that so hopefully it won't be too bad.
Once all that is done, mowing is 1-ish hour but I have a garden so I am out there almost every day puttering (weeding, picking something for dinner, etc.) I like being out there so this isn't a chore.
I like working outside so unless it is in the heat of the summer or I am being attacked by mosquitoes, I don't really mind it.
All that being said, we have a million projects on the "To Do" list so most of our time isn't actually doing the basic maintenance stuff, it is making the yard into our vision.