Anybody else HATE doing yard work?

I don't necessarily mind doing yardwork, but with a 40 (50) -hour a week day job and a steadily gigging weekend warrior cover band, finding time to get it done can sometimes be a challenge. Weeknights after work are really my only window and if the weather doesn't cooperate or other family obligations come up I'm sometimes SOL.

 

Doesn't bother me. I enjoy manual labor like that.

 

used to do landscaping for a living. would be so proud of the work i did. my personal house looked like crap. couldnt do it all day to spend my time off giving a crap about doing it.

 

Being from western Pennsylvania, you must mean jaggerz or jagger bushes.

There is something in my yard that makes me break out in a rash and I have been scratching like mad. Plus, I got stuck by some cow itch last week too and we have sumac everywhere.

 

I kind of enjoy it. I find mowing/weed wacking relaxing, and the more difficult stuff like putting up a fence, or building a wall very rewarding.

 

Wahhhhh!!

Wahhhh!

Wahhhh!!


Get a rake!


Actually....get your self an eager beaver and be done with it all.

 

I'd rather be under a car getting oily than digging in dirt. Which isn't to say that I actively avoid either one.

In my yard, if I can't do it with a lawn mower or weed whacker, it doesn't need to get done. My wife takes care of the rest because she cares about it and I don't.

 

I mow on a tractor...it's good therapy.

 

I hate not having a garden, more so than doing the work required to maintain it!

 

I absolutely love splitting wood. Pulling weeds is therapeutic for me also. Nothing gets my mind right as much as playing bass though.

 

I used to not mind it because the results made me proud. Then I broke both ankles and a leg in a work accident, had 29 surgeries, and my pride vanished. I now use Roundup three times a year on the entire thing and kill it. Shrubs and trees I can handle, the lawn I can't. I've been struggling with guilt lately over poisoning/contaminating Earth.

My property looks like its a little closer to the sun than the rest on my block. Scorched.

 

I love yard work and gardening. I dont care much for the lawn, growing grass is an excercise in futility and I find it wholly unneccessary, except for the fact that I dont own the home and have to keep it up.

Im watering the lawn every other day, and watering plants every day. Once or twice a week Im pruning some bush, putting up a fence around my fruit, hacking away at a bush we're getting rid of, or structing my blackberry vines. Always something to do, and I love it. Depending on what I feel like doing I probably spend about 30 minutes a day on average, but Ive spent as much as 3 hours completing multiple yard projects.
If I had my way though, Id dig up the grass and have a full blown farm to take care of.

 

+1

Our lawn has been shrinking a bit more every year as we port over to growing more and more of our own food.

 

Our landlord asked us to take care of the lawn, else it'd be gone by now. Ive already removed a good chunk by transplanting an orange tree.
I may have to get some more trees to plant so I can shrink the yard down some more. Watering grass is such a waste.

 

When I bought my house in 98 it had an enormous amount of landscaping ...

I've reduced it greatly

 

I did a stint with bonsai and ended up with a collection of dead, very expensive plants.