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Old 08-11-2003, 12:03 PM
H Ryder
 
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Default large garden maintenance

Hello, haven't posted here for ages (owing to new baby )
we think we may have to move so I'm intending to buy somewhere with a big
garden but have been getting cold feet about the maintenance - by large I
probably mean medium sized - i.e. at least 100 feet long, preferable more
like 200 or more, and at least 50 feet wide - however we have been looking
at places bigger. My main concern is how you mow something that size? long
term I'd be looking at having woodland areas (as I think that these are
lower maintenance but are they?) but how would I go about mowing the garden
until I'd got the lower maintenance bits established? All I ever done is
pushed a plug in flymo type around once a week - what do people with bigger
gardens do? Where do you put the cuttings? Roughly how long does it take -
it is possible to manage a bigger garden without a gardener if you are on
your own? Does anyone have any suggestions about low maintenance ideas? (I
hate hard landscape) I am very keen (probably manage up to an hour a day in
garden, sometimes with children "helping", sometimes alone) (Hubby
completely uninterested ). Any advice would be much appreciated
Hayley