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I have a large enough front and back garden that if it's just me maintaining it, there's likely more than I can keep on top of myself. I'll likely have to remodel the garden to make it more easy to maintain, but the problem I'm facing at the moment is that if I put an hour in, I then want to rest for an hour afterwards. I've kept up the gardening at times enough so that in theory I would get used to the labour, but if I could put say 2 hours or more per weekend-day then I would make better progress.
Putting this in terms like standard get-fit exercises, I suppose I need to divide up the gardening into smaller chunks: my thought is to do 30 minutes, have 15 minutes rest, do another 30 minutes, etc. I'm in two minds about this approach because some types of gardening are more rewarding than others and I might just convince myself that 30 minutes of gardening that I'm making little visible progress with is 'enough' and be done with it.
Another tactic I'm hoping to make something of is to start gardening near lunchtime so the downtime period is more productively spent by feeding myself, but that requires effort too.
Thoughts?
Putting this in terms like standard get-fit exercises, I suppose I need to divide up the gardening into smaller chunks: my thought is to do 30 minutes, have 15 minutes rest, do another 30 minutes, etc. I'm in two minds about this approach because some types of gardening are more rewarding than others and I might just convince myself that 30 minutes of gardening that I'm making little visible progress with is 'enough' and be done with it.
Another tactic I'm hoping to make something of is to start gardening near lunchtime so the downtime period is more productively spent by feeding myself, but that requires effort too.
Thoughts?