How often do you use your garden?

Gloomendoom

I'm in my garden now. Lying on my back on a bench watching a red kite circling above with swallows flitting about above that.

kerri_gt

cyantist wrote: »

Our garden was what sold the house to us but we didn't appreciate just how much time and money it would swallow. We are out there whenever we can trying to make it usable.
We have BBQs or use the pizza oven as often as we can and I dry my washing outside. If it's nice and I'm working from home I'll be outside on my laptop as well.
We also have chickens so I guess we're actually using it all the time to house them.

You could be me, except with the pizza oven and chickens. Our garden, due to a cowboy builder last year is costing way more than planned, but it's part of why we chose this house, good size and was a blank canvas for us. We're creating something low maintenance that we can relax in, I love watching the birds and bats outside.

I can sit in the living room I might winter when I can't use the garden so much, so when it's fine I like to sit and enjoy being outside.

I hear a lot of houses round us using theirs, kids playing, people having bbqs, nothing raucous, just the general summer sounds if suburbia.

Melanzana I grew up in a house with a south facing garden and I appreciate how unbearably hot they can get. Ours is now north west so prob not everyone's ideal as in the winter it gets no sun and lots of moss, but we still get a good bit at this time of year.

VfM4meplse

Nathaniel_Essex wrote: »

Flies, cat droppings and (as predicted) new neigbhours who stink up the entire outside have meant I have not used the garden.

Well I feel very content with my lot! I have escaped the stink of cooking every time I walk out of my (new) home, and it's been replaced by the gentle waft of...jasmine. This place just gets better each passing day.

happyandcontented wrote: »

Where do you get these from? Do you have a link, please?

I got mine from B&M, I think they were £2.99 each or thereabouts.

bspm1

All day, every day, whatever the weather.

suki1964

Even with the dreadful weather we have here, we use the garden

Veggie garden, hens and ducks are the work, the pizza oven, dinning area, pond area are the pleasure areas

In between we have a huge area that the grandkids can play in, swing, slide, paddling pool ( if the weather is kind) scooters, bikes etc

Then we have the games room and bar

Its a great garden for a party

no1catman

I don't 'use' it - not sure if I understand the concept!
I do however, enjoy it, while it can be a chore and a challenge.

It's a chore, watering all the plants, after a dry spell.
It's a challenge - sowing seeds in the greenhouse, then waiting for them to come up, especially when hardly any do!
it's a challenge trying to get rid of the duckweed on the pond.
It's a challenge keeping marauding hungry herons at bay.
It's a challenge, knowing where to prune the roses and apple tree.
It's both a chore & challenge to buy in successive weeks bedding plants - still it helps reach the conditional spend totals.

then to enjoy, the birds enjoying the bird bath, sparrows - four at a time, magpies, blackbirds, and pigeons.
Then to enjoy, the plants as they grow, and bloom, with tubs full of colour, and hanging baskets stand out from 70' away.
Then to enjoy, the fish - swimming about themselves enjoying the warm water.
Then to enjoy - strawberries time to pick.

shortcrust

PasturesNew wrote: »

I never sit in mine because .... it's usually breezy or windy ... and "everything I own, want, need" is inside the house. If I take a chair out there.... then what? Coffee's inside, loo's inside, telly's inside, PC's inside, drinks are inside, food's inside....

So I usually last about 2 minutes before I'm bored rigid.

Don't have a tablet (probably wouldn't be able to see it in the sun anyway); can't read (sun glare on pages).

All I could do out there is sit and fiddle with my fingers....

I am outside several times a day, when drying washing or having a ciggie... I just don't sit there.

I have a friend who has a large garden that she's always working on - when I go there we sit out in the garden, well, under a covered part adjoined to the house ... for up to an hour, then we go inside.

There are those who need to do and there are those who are happy just to be. I spent all day in my garden yesterday doing absolutely nothing*. It was perfect! Might do the same today.:)

* not including looking, listening, wondering, dreaming etc.

Pennydropped

We have a shared garden with the other tenants in our converted Victorian. One tenant in particular makes a big fuss over any noise the children make in the garden, so we tend to go to the park instead.

worried123

I have a small garden but dont spend much time in to be honest. I dont feel its private enough...if i had a completely secluded garden i would......but thats just me.

moneyistooshorttomention

worried123 wrote: »

I have a small garden but dont spend much time in to be honest. I dont feel its private enough...if i had a completely secluded garden i would......but thats just me.

I know what you mean - I find it offputting that neighbours can see into my back garden (ie that bit of my garden that is definitely supposed to be private).