A bit of fluff to muse over, who does your gardening or yard work?

I shave it myself

In TN my husband mowed the lawn and I did the seeding and the fertilizing and I trimmed our bushes the first 4 years we lived there. He continued to do the mowing, but I started hiring people to round bushes and fertilize and kill the weeds. I still seeded fescue every year in the shady spots.

Now that we are back in Florida we have a lawn company do everything.

See, in TN it was $120 per cut, no weeding, no pruning of trees, nothing but cutting the lawn. In FL I pay $140 a month for cutting the lawn, pruning bushes, and pulling weeds in the beds. $165 a month total if I want the fertilizer and pest control for the lawn added in. My lawn in TN was a little bit bigger to be fair, maybe 20% bigger. Still, the price difference is huge! I’m very happy not to do any lawn work or gardening.

My husband and I do it. I create the plans and he does over 70 percent of the physical labor at first, and then I maintain, cut, clip, weed and feed it.
And I would not hire anyone. I tried a few times but they always had a different vision from what I wanted. Usually something expensive and time consuming to care for. I like easy growing plants that are easy to maintain. Impatients, elephant ears, geraniums and hostas. I also like planting them from seeds in the ground and watch them grow. They always want me to plan expensive scented plants that will bring all the bees and wasps to my tiny garden. And many times plants that won’t do well in certain areas in my garden because of lack of sun in some areas and too much in others.

I pay a guy who lives down the street. He gets 30 bucks to mow, and he does it about every two weeks, from May to around October.

I live in a apartment. I am greeted by a parking lot and dumpsters when I walk outside.

Our yard is a half acre and lawn makes up most of it. I spend about >$400 a year maintaining it myself (mowing, watering, feeding, weeding, moss control, 6 sprinkler systems to maintain, mole damage, etc). I don’t even want to think about how much money I’d have to pay someone to manage our lawn. And that is a big motivating factor for me to do it myself. HA!

I do. I enjoy the labor and time spent in the sun. Our yard is a part-time job.

Gardening and yard work is one of my least favorite things to do in the world — so I pay a guy. Couple hundred each Spring and Autumn for a thorough clean up and then $30/mow every two/three weeks from May through October.

We do the vegetables, the chickens take care of turning the compost and general bug control, and the goats mow the grass and fertilize. On my trips to suburbia and its carefully watered and mown lawns I tend to drive around thinking, What a waste.

I did when I had a lawn. Now I’ve moved into a smaller place and it has a very small green area that I’ve started taking over (Spring has only just started here.) I’m planning on ‘greening’ up my space with containers and pots, but that’s about all I can do. When I lived in New Zealand, I gardened all year around. I loved it. I could grow anything in that climate. Here, I can’t even get a damn tulip to bloom.