If money and/or space were no object...

[OverWyreGrower]

More land please! We'd keep pigs - just a couple every year for us and friends. I'd extend our orchard (to include cherries, almonds and peaches)

A new greenhouse - ours is slowly rotting away and won't last more than a year we think

More chickens (cos we'd have more land to put them on!)

Petrol driven rotavator/tiller

Staff - just a couple of days a week....

[esrikandan]

For me - small vineyard in southern France with an orchard and vegetable plot. Somewhere near the atlantic coast but not Bordeaux. Perfect!

[Newbie]

I'm rather happy with my house & size of the garden, would just like the time & ability to get it how i imagine it could be! At the moment its mainly all grass, we have put in a path, flower bed, fencing, veg patch, 3 apple trees and rhubarb in the past year.

Wouldn't mind some chickens...and a herb garden...and a greenhouse..and a pond...and a bigger veg patch...and more fruit...and a full time gardener to help be realise my vision!

[Dobby]

orchard,stream, A Victorian veg garden, polytunnel, 2more Green houses,woods for rabbits,
electricity supply
water supply
pigs
sheep
cows
chickins
a small holding I supose or a big holding

[Headfry]

We all seem to think very much a like....no one has said
flash car
big house
posh clothes!

thank goodness :-)

[vegnut]

Sorry but the vine hasn't got enough Gigabytes of memory for my wish list

[HeyWayne]

Money can buy you many things....

Health fears of £19m lotto winner - Times Online

Health, isn't one of them.

[Hans Mum]

Health, isn't one of them.

very true HW but ............

i'd have a couple of acres with fruit orchards & veggies with John Barrowman helping on the land (i know i'm not his type but heyho) and James Martin helping in the kitchen

then i wake up & come to work

[HeyWayne]

HW, look at web site SSL they do a 'shed' with a sound console in it tee hee

Looks cool Headfry, but I only wanna listen to it, no idea about all that techy stuff!

[JennieAtkinson]

I;m with Newbie - like what I've got, but wish I had more time (and energy) to enjoy it.

[Polly Fouracre]

Just a keen and strong(I was going to say man-but a woman would do!!) to help me cultivate my field. Jim,my partner,I love to death but his idea of horticulture is to mow the lawn and appreciate the veg I grow.

[Paul Wagland]

The orchard has to be top of my list, with lots of space for chooks under the trees. Then there's the coppiced woodland, the river with watermill, the wildflower and water meadows...

Not sure that counts as a garden any more...?

What a nice thread!

[bluemoon]

I'd want to do the whole good-life thing - ironically proper self-sufficiency costs. I'd want loads of hens and a pretty goat or two, an orchard, as many greenhouses as I want rather than having to juggle everything around in the one I've got. Perfect soil that crumbles between my fingers, but still retains the colour of peat (what I've got at the mo has the colour, but sticks into huge clumps).........Of course in this fantasy the weather's always perfect (except that it always snows on Christmas Eve) there are no bugs or moulds or slugs, and my OH never sighs then promises to 'do it tomorrow'.

[kentvegplot]

For me, I'd like to be able to abandon all other jobs (including housework!) and just enjoy the garden. I have about half an acre which is mainly grass, it would be nice have sumptous flower beds as well as a fantastic veg garden (walled, of course).

A proper orchard would be nice, with rare breed pigs in it, and lots of hens too. A large pond (still haven't persuaded OH on this one) too.

Oh yes, and a summerhouse - I have a real hankering for being able to sleep in a lovely wooden summerhouse in the nice weather. Plus, I need someone strong to help with all those jobs that I want to do but I'm just too short/weak/etc etc to be able to do without getting completely ratty over them

[paplay]

I will probably be ignored forever now ............... but my wish at the moment is for 20 lorry loads of Ready Mix concrete to come off the ferry and an army of navvies to lay it around the farm! We did 'opt out' for the self sufficiency thing many many years ago - we have loads of land, chickens, sheep, raise our own beef & pork, polytunnel, veg garden - a view to die for - but there is always the other side to these seemingly idyllic lives! The weather here for one! Wind, rain and mud makes every job a real challenge and very hard work - even just getting the fuel in for the cosy fire!

Love it really - just a c*** day!

Chris