Neighbouring gardens

[veggiechicken]

Just curious about how your home garden compares to your neighbours!! Do your neighbours grow edibles or are you "different".
Looking at my garden on Goggle satellite mine is the only one that you can hardly see, as its covered in trees. There's very little grass and lot of "structures".
My neighbours on both sides have GHs but they never grow much, if anything, in them. There are 4 GHs in near neighbour's gardens but none of them really use them. Maybe a couple of tomatoes, that's about it.
Most of their gardens are "lawn" and I see and hear them out there every week in summer, mowing, just to keep it tidy. One even has a ride-on mower to play with.
Basically, their gardens are grass, a few shrubs, a couple of fruit trees and some compulsory hanging baskets. There may be a token tomato or runner bean but that's about it.
To me, their gardens are "boring" and I look at them and see wasted opportunity.
They look at mine and see an overgrown mess which they think need a lot of work.

If we were to sell our houses, their's would sell on ease of maintenance (only need to run a mower around each week) whilst mine would need someone who has watched the Good Life!!

How about yours?

[Nicos]

I would need a full time park keeper to keep my land in perfect order!
At least the house would be easy maintenance. (Well...apart from the dust....once it's finished )

[Nicos]

My neighbour's.....?... a decent sit on mower between them would suffice. One neighbour has a couple of very small potagers...a couple of hours a week would keep on top of them

(We are a hamlet of 3houses, with 5 inhabitants. In the early 1800s there were 80 people living in the hamlet)

[burnie]

We are in a small village, as far as I know there's only 4 of us in the entire village that grows anything edible.

[veggiechicken]

There are about 12 houses where I live, all on one side of the road and I'm roughly in the middle. We're on the outskirts of the city, with fields and woods around us.
I used to have this idea that, if each household specialised in one crop each year and we all shared it, we'd have a great set-up.
With neighbours who prefer lawns to lettuce, there's not much hope for that!!

[Jimny14]

I have a small veg patch and area for fruit bushes etc, and some areas for edibles in pots and tucked away in otherwise unused areas. A mature apple out front and then out back a large lawn for the kids to play in. Adjoining us we have farmers fields and next door who have if I remember correctly 6 apple trees (definitely have discovery as we get big bags of em to use each year), damsons, a greenhouse, open veg beds and a smallish poly tunnel. To say next door are in to gyo would be fair

[Chestnut]

I bought a house with lovely established shrubs and flowers. It seemed a shame to dig them all up, which is how I came to rent an allotment;-)

Our neighbours on one side have a plum tree and an apple tree. Everyone else seems to prefer low maintenance

[rary]

My garden is not that big, but out of 19 neighbours there are only three of us that do any gardening one of the, a lady has mostly grass with a flower border which she keeps very tidy and always plenty of colour, the other gardener like my self grows flowers and veg, though mainly flowers as he looks after his older sisters garden and grows a lot of veg there, my self the front garden is in chips with shrubs and hanging baskets, and the back garden I have 5 raised beds for veg and a grass area for the grandchildren to play and that is surrounded by a narrow raised bed border where I grow my flowers, also a greenhouse where I grow mainly tomatoes but hopefully peppers also this year

[Chrissyteacup]

There are about 12 houses where I live, all on one side of the road and I'm roughly in the middle. We're on the outskirts of the city, with fields and woods around us.
I used to have this idea that, if each household specialised in one crop each year and we all shared it, we'd have a great set-up.
With neighbours who prefer lawns to lettuce, there's not much hope for that!!

See I like growing a hodgepodge so being made to specialise in one thing would take the fun out of it for me!!

[SarrissUK]

I live in a terraced house in town. Small back gardens. My lovely neighbour Molly's garden is paved, front and back. My neighbour on the other side has a huge lilac tree, a huge stack of paving slabs and an old TV in the front garden and a wild meadow (I'm being kind) with rampant buddleia, a blackcurrant dying in a little pot for years and a few herbs. Back fence missing.
My garden is not the only one in the area with a greenhouse, but I think I'm the only one that use it for veg! My veg bed takes up a quarter of the garden and I built the wall to contain it last year. I also have a tiny pond, patio for socialising and a chicken coop. I'm definitely the only one with no lawn at all.

[Chrissyteacup]

We live in supposedly the largest village in Europe!! We’ve got a larger garden then most of our neighbors as previous owners bought farmland (that’s now housing) to extend it and it’s been lovingly tended to so lots of mature plants lucky us!! Our next door neighbors started a veg plot for their kids last year so I passed some seeds and chitted spuds over the fence! I think a couple of them grow veggies but still getting to know them as only been here for 18 months.

[veggiechicken]

See I like growing a hodgepodge so being made to specialise in one thing would take the fun out of it for me!!

In my head, we would have grown enough of one thing for everyone, then done whatever we liked with the rest. At the time we kept bees, so we would have produced honey for everyone, maybe eggs and apples and a veg of some sort. It was crop rotation across 12 gardens!
I still think it could work if I could persuade a few of them to join in.

[Chrissyteacup]

In that case I’d join in! I quite fancy bee keeping! Keep thinking about doing a course I’m not sure I could tell my friends they already think I’ve enough hobbies... so does OH although I saw him looking at goats the other day we will eventually get chickens but don’t want to commit to them yet!

[Small pumpkin]

What are neighbors?

[mcdood]

What are neighbors?

More Small Pumpkin envy from me
I live in a new estate and my very small garden on a corner plot has about 5 neighbours, which is one reason why I have an allotment