The time required. Even if you assume so, that the cultivation and care of fruit trees, Vegetables and flowers are restorative activities, they require strength and time. The effort required, to work intensively on a garden and to keep it in a well-tended appearance, must not be underestimated. To use the time in the garden wisely, every garden must be laid out according to economic considerations. It is better to avoid artificial paths and bed shapes and every possibility, Make gardening easier with the right equipment, to use.
The maintenance effort depends on the floor, the weather and the skills, nevertheless, some figures should be given for the necessary time expenditure. A kitchen garden from 300 m2, so a small garden area, requires from April to October on average 1 hour daily or 5 Hours of care time at the weekend. Throughout the year-
pruning is accounted for by tillage 30 percent, on sowing and planting 15 percent, on maintenance work such as watering, fertilizing and weed control 30 percent, on harvest work 20 percent, to occasional work such as cleaning up and maintaining the devices 5 percent. Soil cultivation together with sowing and planting make up almost half of all gardening activities. The work should be spread out over the year if possible, so they don't become a burden.
All open areas are already dug up in autumn. Spinach can be sown as early as September/October. As soon as the ground is free of frost, will be carrots in March, parsley, cut lettuce, Sow onions and radishes. The use of annual and biennial summer flowers can also be used for sowing flower beds- and distribute planting work over different months. In the orchard, the pruning should not only be in late autumn, but with stone fruit, soft fruit and early pome fruit can be carried out after the harvest. Pruning and weed control can be done alternately. This also makes work easier, for the one activity becomes upright, the other performed in a stooped posture.
At lawn, flowers and ornamental trees, the care required depends on the system. ornamental lawns, Flower borders with garden perennials, Summer flowers and flowering shrubs require just as much care as an intensively cultivated kitchen garden. In order to reduce the maintenance effort for these parts of the garden to just one to two hours a week, only such trees are allowed, Perennials and grass mixtures are used, that correspond to the location and assert themselves on their own after a period of growth. An important work then consists only in this, to hold back the strongest growing plants and encourage less vigorous ones. The lawn becomes two- cut up to three times a year, not fertilized and only watered during long dry periods.