What is your biggest problem with home gardening?
- Thread starter aslitunc
- Start date
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2015
- Messages
- 5,277
- Reaction score
- 4,459
- Location
- Southern Chester County, PA, USA
- Hardiness Zone
- 4 to 5 best for success.
- Country
I have 3 acres, and can't do it all. work full time. Need a crew of men. Leaves will fall soon. Help.
- Joined
- Jan 31, 2018
- Messages
- 3,548
- Reaction score
- 3,890
- Location
- "The Tropic of Trafford"
- Hardiness Zone
- Keir Hardy
- Country
Hi and welcome.
What sort of book are you writing?
Gardening for most is a hobby. So we try to avoud "struggles." Many we have, tend to be because we are coping with getting older.
As far as individual tasks, of which there can be countless numbers given the number of different gardens covered by this board, it can be a choice of whether to do it yourself or "get a man in."
I don't think you can categorise "struggles." The same task can be easy for some and hard for others.
What sort of book are you writing?
Gardening for most is a hobby. So we try to avoud "struggles." Many we have, tend to be because we are coping with getting older.
As far as individual tasks, of which there can be countless numbers given the number of different gardens covered by this board, it can be a choice of whether to do it yourself or "get a man in."
I don't think you can categorise "struggles." The same task can be easy for some and hard for others.
- Joined
- Oct 24, 2019
- Messages
- 54
- Reaction score
- 11
- Country
I don’t ever struggle with my garden.
Weather. To much rain, no rain for months on end. Sunshine, 100+ degree heat burning the plants.
- Joined
- Oct 24, 2019
- Messages
- 54
- Reaction score
- 11
- Country
u can always water it if not enuff rainor u can get a sun protector.
Meadowlark
No N-P-K Required
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2019
- Messages
- 2,864
- Reaction score
- 2,384
- Location
- East Texas
- Hardiness Zone
- old zone 8b/new zone 9a
- Country
My biggest problem.... .probably would be harvesting and using all the produce that comes out of my garden. Its a good problem to have.
It gets harder each year to get all the work done...and at some point I'll have to scale back some, but the enjoyment of producing still far outweighs the work to harvest and use it.
It gets harder each year to get all the work done...and at some point I'll have to scale back some, but the enjoyment of producing still far outweighs the work to harvest and use it.
- Joined
- Mar 2, 2019
- Messages
- 68
- Reaction score
- 91
- Country
Home/Backyard Gardening is truly ADDICTIVE. The older I get, the more I enjoy doing it. I simply don't have the time, energy, money, space (acreage) or daylight to do all things I want to do.
JBtheExplorer
Native Gardener
My personal problem in my own garden? Or my problem with home gardening in general?
My personal problem is that I don't think I could ever have enough land to do what I want to do. Never enough space. I need at least a few square miles.
My problem with home gardening in general is how earth-unfriendly it often is. Chemicals are heavily used in the gardening hobby, but there's also a lot of other bad practices within the hobby.
- Joined
- Oct 24, 2019
- Messages
- 54
- Reaction score
- 11
- Country
- Joined
- Oct 24, 2019
- Messages
- 54
- Reaction score
- 11
- Country
I’m sorry but I’m older and still have energy. Lazy bones
- Joined
- Oct 9, 2017
- Messages
- 1,300
- Reaction score
- 1,737
- Location
- Warrenton North Carolina
- Hardiness Zone
- 7b
- Country
Until you thoroughly understand a person’s situation, it is considered poor taste to criticize them. Two posts in a row calling someone lazy is a bit over the top.
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2015
- Messages
- 5,277
- Reaction score
- 4,459
- Location
- Southern Chester County, PA, USA
- Hardiness Zone
- 4 to 5 best for success.
- Country
Wow, @AuntRose53 , copy that of @Silentrunning . such poor taste indeed.
- Joined
- Oct 24, 2019
- Messages
- 54
- Reaction score
- 11
- Country
relax!! It was just a joke!!!!