"K" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote
And of course given that some gardeners only have a pocket
hankerchief
sized garden then they have more desire to fiddle and change
things as
they have less work to do and more chance of getting bored than
those
who have a big garden.

That's an interesting concept. My experience is that most subjects
become more interesting the more you know about them. And in a small
garden, where you can keep on top of the work, there is the
opportunity
to get to know the detail in the way that wouldn't be possible in a
larger garden.

That wasn't really what I meant by referring to the fiddling and
getting bored. I really meant that making quite dramatic changes to a
small garden are much easier than in a big garden (think more along
the lines of those makeover shows)

It's not necessarily so much a 'desire to fiddle' as the opportunity
to
do things in a more 'hands on' way. For example, I can hand weed our
paving, which I couldn't do if I had a large expanse, which means I
can
spot the dianthus and harebells and leave them be, which I wouldn't
be
able to do if I had to use a herbicide.

Even in my very big garden, I still only use herbicdes as a very, very
last resort after every other organic alternative has failed - perhaps
once or twice a year on one or two plants. I hand weed and mulch.
Overall, I've been quite surprised at how few organic gardeners there
are in this forum.