I hate gardening

[Fallout]

What a crock of **** gardening is. Mine starts with walking around with a sandwich bag picking up dog crap. Then I mow the lawn with a crappy lawn mower, having to empty it every 5 feet. Why does the grass insist on growing so quickly? It needs to do one. Stupid grass.

Everything grows. Why can't it just stay the same? Damn plants. Why is my fence falling down? Why does it have to rot? Why does the dog insist on digging feckin holes? My lawn mower would be better off as a trophy truck with all the dodgy terrain it has to traverse. It sucks.

Gardening is a waste of my life, and I wish my garden was dead.

Thanks for listening.

[Littlepeahead]

That is why I have a patio. If I want grass there's a massive load of it outside my office with a team of 8 men to mow it ready for me to walk across it barefoot on a dewy morning.

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[tigersaw]

I love gardening. Its mindless, stops me stressing about work.

Nothing like sitting on a new mown lawn in the sun with beer and fags

[Fallout]

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[Tomor]

You should dig up all the grass and AstroTurf it Si!

[Fallout]

Would love to deck the whole thing. Lend us a grand would you Tom?

[Tomor]

Yeh no worries, will get my chauffeur to drop my account manager off to transfer the funds

[Bibio]

just spent 3 hours mowing mine today and i have a professional 21'' petrol Dori. to be fair it is the first time i have cut it this year and it was ermmm quite long. filled my garden wheelie bin and half the neighbours with cuttings.

[joshwalker094]

Puffs!
I love gardening :)
Do it part time for a living. Got a fair few customers now.
4 lawn mowers, 2 stimmers, 4 chainsaws, 2 hedgecutters. Blower.
All two stoke( except mowers, petrol) :D what's not to love.

[Tomor]

) :D what's not to love.
the effort of cutting hedges!!

[cheesypeeps]

Oh I was like Edward scissor hands last night! I actually had to remind myself to stop cutting the hedge!
I do kinda find gardening therapeutic. A good result with exercise involved. Would rather be out on the bike right enough!

[Spank86]

Would love to deck the whole thing. Lend us a grand would you Tom?

You only need money for materials, decking is easy.

[dizzyblonde]

You call that gardening Si?

GROW FOOD NOT LAWNS

Far, far more enjoyable, harder work, but worth the effort with what you produce.

My allotments probably bigger than your lawn :)

[Milky Bar Kid]

Oh how I share your pain!! My grass needs cut again. It's always needing cut. And my back hurts so am not doing it. So there.

[dkid]

Gotta say I actually quite like gardening these days. Since I've had kids and stopped going out so much me and the wife have had to make the most of staying in and enjoying our days in the garden with our two boys and our evenings sometimes sat out with a drink in front of the chimenea.
My garden used to be covered in stones/shingle for low maintenance but it wasn't kiddie friendly and is split into two levels so had a drop from a retaining wall. I got rid of the stones and layed turf, put up a small picket fence & gate, and just generally made it tidy and useable.
Now it's somewhere I quite like to be and as long as I keep on top of things nothing is a massive chore. It's not big but it's our own little space and luckily its south facing so gets plenty of sun and backs onto fields so is quiet. We are also not overlooked.

These days I actually like to get plants in and enjoy that side of things too. I'm no Alan Titchmarsh but I can easily imagine myself doing more in my garden when I get into my later years.

[Balky001]

I love gardening. My wife spends hours in the garden every day in the summer which means I can get out on the bike instead :D

DizzyB, lucky to get an allotment but you are right, home grown is best!

[ibby33]

just done the front, back and side gardens beer time!!

[dirtydog]

I mowed the grass last weekend, my mower is rubbish to. You have to tip the grass box up to take it off the mower which then means half the grass falls out of it!

[Sir Trev]

Gotta say I actually quite like gardening these days. Since I've had kids and stopped going out so much...

GROW FOOD NOT LAWNS

I do kinda find gardening therapeutic.

I love gardening. Its mindless, stops me stressing about work.

Nothing like sitting on a new mown lawn in the sun with beer

All of the above.

filled my garden wheelie bin and half the neighbours with cuttings.

Why? Make a compost bin (just an excuse to play with saws and drills, manly, grrr) and put it and other garden waste to good use.


will get my chauffeur to drop my account manager off to transfer the funds

Good to know I'm not the only one with such staff. I don't however have a gardener, as I find it therapeutic. Today I have cut the lawns, mended my compost bins (manly, grr, see above), trimmed the topiary (not a euphemism), weeded the veg patch, sowed some more lettuce, and planted out the last of the runner beans.

Si, you're not aproaching things withthe right attitude.

[Spank86]

Grass is now cut, job done for another fortnight. Unfortunately still need to trim some hedges and all my flower beds are overgrown with brambles. Save that for another time I think.

[Fallout]

I might enjoy gardening if I wasn't hampered at every turn. The dog literally ruins the lawn. Digging holes, ripping up the grass, leaving stones and **** all over the lawn. Plus we don't have a green bag, so nowhere for the waste. And there isn't enough time with my other hobbies!

So far I've gravelled half of it. Tempted to do the same with the rest and then just add life with loads of planters.

Gardening is for you guys who don't ride ya bikes. Call me Susanne if it isn't so!

[Sir Trev]

So far I've gravelled half of it. Tempted to do the same with the rest and then just add life with loads of planters.



Make sure you put a proper membrane down before you gravel or you'll be spending just as much time removing the weeds as mowing the old lawn!

Planters may add colour but in warm dry weather they need watering a couple of times a day to keep them looking nice. They are often a lot more work than borders that don't dry out nearly as fast. There is a reason why the nicest hanging baskets have a micro-irrigation system plumbed in or a retired person who has the time to water them enough!!

[Spank86]

We did that trev.

Micro irrigation and a hose timer and you're set as far as planters go,

Still got to weed the buggers though, I'd stick with the grass,at least the dog likes it.

[Sir Trev]

My greenhouse has an irrigation system plumbed in via a timer. Very useful for when I'm travelling with work - you cannot trust a 16 year old to remember to water the growbags twice a day and Lady Poppy is only vaguely aware of a glass-themed buiding somewhere on the estate that keeps us supplied wit lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers during the summer.