How much time do you spend in your garden?

[BarrelOfOtters]

Working on it and just enjoying it?

I've got a small front and back garden - both crammed and relatively newly planted so they haven't really matured yet.

I like a good potter in the morning with a cup of tea before work usually with secateurs though it hasn't really felt warm enough to do that.

I usually get a 3 hour stint in on a Sunday morning - with a tea break, cat brushing break..

And the odd 10 or so minutes each day to pull out a week or tie something up.

I feel I'm running out of time to prick out seeds or pot stuff on.

About a hour a day. Next door let their garden overgrow with weeds, and now my garden has the same fate so unless I get them fast it just goes crazy.

Nowhere near enough 😂 I work full time and have a pre-schooler. I work at home most of the week so I usually get out in my lunch break for half an hour. Sometimes an hour or two on a Sunday morning as that's my 'lie in' (which I chose to use for jobs rather than waste it sleeping). That's it. I never pot stuff on or plant out in time, everything is always suffering because I should have done something with it two weeks ago.

Not as much as I would like this spring. The weather has been awful. However, I have been able to keep on top of jobs so far as we don't have a big garden. I managed to redo my main border in the autumn, so it is pretty weed free. I'm still pulling out sycamore seedlings every time I go outside.

I can now drink my tea out there in the morning. So do that while doing my aphid morning check. In a few weeks I will be eating my breakfast out there.

I have been out there a lot recently as we have been doing it up adding decking etc. but other than that weeding I suppose.

I always wonder what people do when they say they have been out working in the garden for hours. They much have large gardens!!!

i probably spend at least 3 hours a day in my garden. it’s large but i waste time poncing about, or staring into the earth trying to figure out if this or that is going to grow. i’ve tried to get the place organised to make it enjoyable with lowest maintenance, but i always see something that needs spraying/weeding/tying/relocating/pruning/watering etc. it’s never ending. But i love it. ❤️

If it's sunny I spend a lot time out there on my sun bed, does that count?

DH is the Gardner he'll be out there for hours and finds plenty of unexcesary things to do but it makes him happy.

In the summer we eat meals out there most days. Often out there until midnight, feels like another room with the table and chairs and sofa.

We have a fairly outdoorsy house in that it opens up on all four sides to gardens and we have all of the doors open most of the time throughout the summer (rural and isolated). So during the warmer months we are probably outside about 50% of the time but just living, not always working on the garden. We have a large covered terrace and spend a lot of time there. I'm sat under it at the moment in the rain.

About 8 hours a week in the spring til autumn

A normal spring: 30mins a day during the week and 4+ hours at the wekend.

This spring? Hardly any, it's always raining whenver I have free time!

Ours is very low maintenance. Just a few bushes, plants, Roses, clematis, lilies. Takes about 3 hours per year, and yes I mean per year, to maintain.

Huge table to eat at in the summer months, bbq, sun loungers. Huge paddling pool. Easy.

Entirely depends on the weather! But an hour or so a day would be nice to just potter. Longer if a planned job needed doing.

I can't bear being inside when the weather is nice so I spend as much time as I can in the garden, either pottering or reading or just standing listening to the birds. My garden is small and low maintenance and one of my favourite past-times is dead heading flowers on a warm summer evening, especially when the honeysuckle is in flower.

"Doing unnecessary things" that's pretty much my DH's definition of what I do in the garden. As far as he's concerned I seem to spend my whole time just moving stuff around, pots, small pots, bit pots, plants, weeds, compost...

I love the pottering and sometimes have to remember to take time to actually enjoy it.

Most days, about half an hour doing stuff, but then a few hours through the day, just sitting, having morning cup of tea or afternoon coffee, lunch, chatting to dh, chatting to my dd should they be up, watching the swifts that have only been back a week or so now, or the sparrows and other birds at the feeders.
Other times, like today, which was meant to be a quick hedge clip, ended up being a full weed and debramble and deSpanish bluebell of the front border.
I love being able to just sit out at the weekend, having a little nap in the sunshine, having an g&t or glass of wine, until I have to go do something like putting the dinner on.

@Era your home sounds fabulous!
Like others, weather permitting I'm in the garden most of the day if not working. I'm crap with gardening but have someone who attends fortnightly to keep everything in check. I love listening to and watching birds, reading, morning tea, cooking and eating, planting and thinking of other things to do. I'm trying to find a reading nook chair at the moment so constantly stand in the garden envisioning how various options will look 😀
@Cuppa2sugars what size is yours? Sounds great too.