garden/acreage

[Nicos]

Back garden 60'x80' ( some veg in pots)
Standard allotment
2 acres in France- just need to sort out what we want to do with that now as it's our new project!!

[cottage garden]

I have been lucky a couple of years ago to buy a rambling cottage with an overgrown, south facing, acre walled garden, complete with 20 foot green house and walk in coldframe (which might have once been a pineapple house). It has still got cordoned pears on the walls and as I have been weeding , I have discovered 20-30 currant bushes, rhubarb etc. Best of all has to be a huge mulberry tree.

It is an enormous amount of work but gives me intense joy. I have double dug (horrendous) about 7 beds, each about 20 foot which I am trying to grow vegetables on. In between the beds are cottage flowers everywhere and unfortunately a fair amount of hogweed.

[Salina]

cottage garden, I think you're place sounds great, I always prefer a higgledy-piggledy garden to a more perfect one because there's more surprises with things appearing and popping up lol.

Alice, I think if I do get 2 acres about 1.5 acres would be paddocks and then half an acre for the house, garden, polytunnel, and sheds etc. it's nice for horses to have plenty of space for a good gallop and to play with their friends and it's great to be able to separate their field in half so it doesn't all get bare and trampled at once!

[OverWyreGrower]

We've about 1/3 of an acre

We've got a lovely long garden, a huge greenhouse, a small orchard, a large fenced off veg patch, a chicken area and still some field/lawn that we're not sure what to do with!

Mr OWG wants pigs, I want to extend the orchard!

Even for 1/3 of an acre, the up-keep is huge. The amount of grass clippings and hedge clippings we have is immense. It quickly gets out of hand too. With the rain, the garden is flooded but the grass is still growing, and it un-mowable, because of the water. It will need strimming before we can mow it all!

[Madasafish]

Juts 0.5acres.
3 compost heaps, 2 dalek composters, 3 apple trees, 1 pear fruit and veg section, 20 odd other trees, fields on 2 sides, 3 LARGE oak trees in field about 20 metres away to ensure we are covered in leaves in autumn (if our own trees don't do it), greenhouse (small) . Yard (large) cast rion fencing (requires painting every 10 years), 5 metre high stone pillars.


and lots of very hard work.

My advice to anyone with a small garden wanting a bigger one: get fit. You'll need to be fit. On Satursdays I garden for 8 hours at a time and by the end can hardly walk.....