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Even a 50 m² garden requires a lot of work

28 January 2025 Smart Garden

What size garden or flower bed can you handle without turning an enjoyable and beneficial hobby into grueling labor? Many find it hard to believe, but for an average hobby gardener, the optimal size of a cultivated plot is somewhere between 30 and 100 square meters.

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Personal Experience. Planting 10 cyclamen bushes between three pine trees took about 5 hours. Of that time, 4 hours were spent choosing the location and discussing it.

Let’s do the math:
Based on my personal experience, which aligns with most estimates I’ve come across, maintaining 1 m² of fully cultivated land—be it a flower bed, vegetable garden, or decorative garden—requires at least 1 hour of work per year for an experienced gardener.
And that’s an optimistic estimate, factoring in all possible mechanization.

You’ll need to:

  • Weed the garden,
  • Prune bushes and trees,
  • Protect your plants from pests,
  • Repair and adjust equipment,
  • Apply fertilizers,
  • And most importantly, continuously observe your plants and analyze the results.

In my opinion, the last point is more important than all the others combined, as observation and analysis transform gardening into a creative process.

If you don’t have significant gardening experience, feel free to multiply the average time required by 2, or even 4.
So, to maintain a 50 m² decorative garden, the average hobby gardener will spend between 100 and 200 work hours annually. That’s about 2–4 hours per week.
For a 100 m² garden, you’ll need 4–8 hours per week. Factoring in the inevitable breaks during gardening, that adds up to a full workday. From there, it’s a direct proportion.

What should you do if your garden is larger than 100 m²?
Fortunately, there’s a simple and time-tested solution: allocate the “extra” square meters to a lawn and mow it regularly. With proper mechanization, this reduces labor to 15–20 minutes per m² annually.

Sincerely,
A. Ershov, CEO of Symbiose Intelligente

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