Hope Lundmark: Depends on how you intend to maintain it. I'd strongly suggest a good mulch for cutting down on weeding and disease problems, as well as watering times. There will be times you'll be picking every day, and times when you'll be picking once a week, if that.I'd figure I'd take about 10 hours to get a garden put in of that size, and 1-5 hours a week after that, depending on time of season and how much mulch I could get hold of. Don't plant corn in rows... it won't pollinate as well as if you put it in a block. In fact, I'd make another garden area just for the corn -- it's a nitrogen hog, a water hog, and it shades the other plants pretty badly....Show more
Autumn Vacio: the plants have already been planted, the university is supplying water and it was already tilled and furrowed, the real question is if I should get another plot? If there would be time to do that
Angel Klym: time will depend on how much work you are willing to do...you can fus! s with it all day,or spend as little as 30-45 minutesIt takes more work in the beginning than it does,after everything is set up....
Hilma Pestano: Pulling out the weeds is the worst part of gardening if you have one of the small cultivators it will make your job easier you can get one for around $200 or $300 if you want a troybilt.The amount of time is completely up to you and how fast the weeds grow. they have to removed because they compete with the vegetables for nutrients and water. You also might want to think about investing in soaker hoses with a 4 opening manifold to connect them to and then connect and disconnect a long garden hose to the manifoldSee photohttp://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_071692670...You can use "Y" connectors on those as wellhttp://www.mrdrip.com/hoseaccessories.htmThey also have them at walmart.Soaker hoses usually made from recycled material and is pourous and you can turn the water on low and let it rund thru and soak down deep ! thru the plant (put it up next to the plant) You really can c! onserve water this way.The Ribbon hoses are not as water conservative as soakers.http://www.acehardware.com/sm-soaker-hoses--fi-126...These little tips is what makes a big garden easier to handle....Show more
Alise Rutgers: How much time it will take depends on many things.My garden is 30x35. It takes about 5 hours a week to care for it if these things are done, there, or true:Very Thick Mulch Laid DownAutomatic Watering System Working ProperlyPlenty of Beneficial Insects and No InfestationsNothing Is Ready for HarvestWhen these things go wrong or plants need harvesting, the time it takes to care for my garden increases...sometimes ten-fold.Then we need to set aside time for canning, freezing, etc.If all goes right, it takes me maybe an average 15-20 hours a week to plant, maintain, harvest, and preserve.It's better to have a smaller, well-maintained garden than a big one that's out of control. I've bit off more than I could chew before, and it gets very overwhelming.! It's hard to really enjoy gardening if it's too much for one person. This year I'm going to try the Native American "Three Sisters" garden. Corn in the middle, beans with them to provide nitrogen, and squash around the outside to shade the soil, preserving water and keeping weeds down. I hope that will cut down some time and water usage.I hope I won't over-work myself again.Now my planted areas are smaller and the walkways are a lot bigger!...Show more
Frank Gazaway: 2 to three hours a day. When harvest comes, if you are canning and freezing, that amount will increase.
Loriann Carrigan: To keep maintenance at a minimal mulch very heavily. This will stop the weeds.Then you will just have to make sure that you water and feed the plants
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