On average, how much time do you (or your SO) spend on lawn/landscaping care per week?
About 3 hours a week?
It probably breaks down to about 15 minutes of hand watering and puttering about each evening. I find that part enjoyable. I have a small square foot garden and it makes me so happy to see things sprout.
Then there is about an hour of push-lawnmowering, weeding and other chores. The kids at least love the push mower. I'm trying to convince DH to replace our small lawn with pine straw (needles). The kids can still play soccer on it and we won't need to mow.
Post by keweenawlove on Apr 18, 2015 21:31:51 GMT -5
We have 2-3 days each fall and spring for cleanup but probably only average an hour a week outside of that. Moving/ wedding only takes maybe an hour a week. A little extra for gardening that I've failed at so far.
Last winter I think we only had to shovel 3-4 times and it took maybe 10 minutes each time l.
Last year: 0 hours (lawn service and no plantings) This year: 10 minutes to mow and 5-10 minutes a night to water the plants, so like an hour a week.
We have .1 acres. Growing up, my parents had 1 acre and my dad would spend most of the weekend on it, and my brother and I would too when we were old enough. It suuuuucked. But my parents are both homebodies.
DH spends 2-4 hours/week on lawn care (or snow removal). I spend 1-2 hours on gardening, a bit more in peak weeks of harvest. I cut the veggie garden waaaaay back and am much happier than I was when it was bigger and more of a mess.
ZERO! We hate yard work. Our last 2 homes were taken care of by HOA or the landlady paid someone to come mow. This next home we will be paying someone. They said it's like $25 which is damn cheap so it's worth it.
These days....maybe 2 hours a month during nice weather months. That's mowing and picking up poop. Maybe ever a little less since mowing doesn't really take long.
When I owned a house, I probably spend the better part of 2 days in the spring planting and then maybe 2 hours a week weeding and watering. Figure another 30 minutes for xh to mow.
I sometimes think of planting flowers at my rental, but I really don't enjoy yard work.
On average, 2 hours every 10 to 14 days in the spring and summer. DH would mow our decent sized yard, weed eat and use the blower. Once or twice a spring I would help by trimming bushes and the trees that overhang the driveway and spreading mulch and/or pinestraw.
We used to enjoy working in the yard and took pride in having the nicest yard on our street. Now with 2 little kids, yard work is a chore that DH does quickly while I keep the kids inside and out of his way.
We don't have a yard, but I plant some stuff in the spring in planters which probably takes about an hour and then I spend the rest of the year trying to remember to keep them alive, which if I'm doing a good job takes about 10 minutes or so I guess.
I planted succulents last year and some of them survived the winter. I'm so excited, I found a plant variety that can survive my brown thumb.
Post by polarbearfans on Apr 19, 2015 13:08:53 GMT -5
3 hours? My husband does the mowing. We may pick up sticks or pull some weeds here and there. Minimal raking in fall. Treatments at few times a year to feed the grass/prep for winter.
At our old house, it was up to 6 hours a week during growing season. And that didn't include the veggie garden. True story: we spent one morning house hunting and looking at SFHs and tow homes. Came back home (we were moving an hour away) spent the next 6 hours mowing, weed eating, and general clean up. At the end of the day, we cracked opened beers on the porch, looked at each other and said "townhouse!"
Now we spent about 2 afternoons in the spring cleaning and planting annuals. Then it's nothing but the weekly mow. 15 mins if we just do the front, 45 if the back gets mowed, too.
2 hours combined maybe? DH usually mows/weedeats, I take care of the gardens. It's been more recently since I've been adding to our gardens and putting in edging.
Last week we spent close to 10 hours mulching and getting all of our beds ready for spring. The first year we lived in the house we didn't mulch and ended up with these weeds that grew like Jack's beanstalk.
On average we probably each spend 2 hours a week working on the yard/pool. I have a small garden that takes up my time and Mr. Gt does most of the mowing and pool maintenance.
When the weather's nice, MH spends maybe 2-4 hours a week working in the yard. During the summer when he's off from work, he's probably doing something out there every day.
This past week he installed a window box and planted herbs; planted a few more things in the ground; and installed some sod and that fancy store-bought dirt to get our crappy grass looking better.
I don't do any yard work unless MH asks for help. And then I just complain about it the whole time, lol.
Post by everafter07 on Apr 20, 2015 9:52:21 GMT -5
2 hours a week for mowing 2-3 hours once a spring/summer for planting (planting bushes, a new garden and veggie gardens) 10-15 hours a spring/summer for yard/woods maintenance (moving debris, leaf blowing , cutting back unwanted growth (saplings/sticker bushes)
We have a large yard that butts up to woods on 2.5 sides, so we have a lot of yard work. It's too expensive to outsource. The woods maintenance will lighten up considerably after this year. We're having some large trees cut down to move back the woods line and planting a forsythia border.
About 45 minutes, once a week on mowing, which H insists on doing himself. Otherwise, 5 minutes to write a check for the nice man who does the heavy stuff.
I mow the lawn. I am a SaHM so I do it while the kids are in school so we can do something fun on weekends. It takes about 2 hours of midlessly riding around on a zero turn with a glass of iced tea. I5's actually one of my more fun chores.
Post by treedimensional on Apr 22, 2015 15:44:07 GMT -5
About 15 min per wk. The garden is small and established. The lawn is tiny. The design took some time to plan, and installation was a bear, but now there's really nothing to do but pruning, weeding, watering. And I love gardening!