Is a 3,000 sqm plot sensible?

You must not be perfectionistically inclined under any circumstances. The chicken area will always look bare. A meadow for sheep is simply not a golf course, but it also doesn’t have to be mowed every week or watered in the summer. You won’t be able to keep 3000m² perfectly maintained all the time. It wouldn’t be my thing.

Hello,

Now a 3,000sqm plot of land is for sale. Without a development plan and relatively cheap.

What exactly does "without a development plan" mean? Outlying area?

While my husband only sees the lot of work that is definitely involved, I see it a bit differently. I can understand his concerns, but at the same time, I imagine it would be great to have so much space: vegetable garden, greenhouse, fruit trees, maybe a few sheep and chickens, a pond, etc.

Of course, it is all a lot of work and only manageable if both are on board. But apart from that, I would like to know if anyone has experience with such a large plot.

I'll just tell you about our little garden...

Behind our house there are about 400 sqm of land; originally laid out purely as a utility garden, I have reduced it over the years to a "recreational garden." That means some bushes, some arborvitae/spruce, flowers, and of course the obligatory herb corner and lawn (not English style). I don’t start digging the soil and planting early potatoes before Easter anymore, but I hardly feel like I have less work; just different work and I of course save myself the time-consuming harvesting and canning.

As one of the previous posters already mentioned – nature takes the land back if you don’t keep up. That means for me weekly 2 hours of weeding plus mowing the lawn once or twice, depending on what the weather gods come up with. If I don’t find time even for just one week, it takes revenge; weeds are much more resilient than you might think :( Added to that, bushes and plants need care – somehow the trouble regularly starts with the roses or also the blackberries. By the way – you should think carefully about planting blackberries in the garden; I find them almost worse than ivy. Plus – they fight back when I want to prune them.

As if that’s not enough, a lot of leaves and needles fall in autumn. I mostly put them on the beds; hedgehogs and other critters need to be able to overwinter too. Still, it’s work, as is preparing the garden for winter. That means cutting back bushes, wrapping some plants, or digging others up, etc.

And all that for what? So that we can sit in the garden during our limited free time, the granddaughters can splash around, and we can have barbecues; the latter really is my husband’s job :D

I have just described my gardening work in a nutshell and *only* for 400 sqm. You want to get yourself a small forest with an adjoining meadow, utility garden, and livestock. I therefore don’t believe you will manage with 5 days a week for the maintenance; regardless of what the upkeep of this area will cost you. A swimming pond – which would be an option at that size – costs a fortune. Garden tools, fertilizer & co. also have to be paid for and maintained; that means they should be serviced regularly.

Think it over carefully, because if your husband is already dismissing it, the work will fall completely on you ;)

Rhenish regards

The first thing that comes to mind regarding the main question is Radio Yerevan.

In principle, yes, but...

...almost everything has already been said. But only almost.

And now comes the madness and no, it is not April 1st!

Possibly, due to the garden, you are compulsorily insured with the Agricultural Social Accident Insurance because it is larger than 0.25 hectares.

Linking is not allowed, but just google "Unfallversicherung bg großer Garten"...

One of the first hits deals with this issue.

We have a 600 sqm plot with a house on it. The garden was designed by someone with "garden sense." There is also a 6 × 3 m greenhouse. We are both working more than 10 hours a day. In everyday life, it is not possible to take care of everything as well as you would like. It is always a compromise between leaving things as they are when there is a lot of work and then having a week of vacation in the garden.

The 600 sqm is actually already too much, but I have already canned 15 jars of cucumbers and there will be a few more. That is how I would describe it for myself.

But there can also be major relationship stress if both are not fully committed and especially do not want the same thing.

Therefore, it is very important to think it over together, in my opinion.

We have a plot of land of a similar size. 2500sqm. The purchase price was absolutely low (<20€/sqm) - developed, without a development plan, designated building plot only on the front half (plot 25m wide & +/-98m long), but that's more than enough.

We have now made the garden completely level with an excavator, and a riding lawn mower will be purchased eventually. Alternatively, we have farmer friends who mow the area for us until then.
What exactly we will do with the garden is not decided yet. Part of it will be a playground (trampoline, pool, etc. etc.), part will be planted with trees. My wish is 1-2 raised beds. A large barbecue area is planned for the future.

We were initially skeptical too - now we are very happy about this little piece of earth with a view of the open field & the forest.

What does the property look like today? What do the adjacent areas look like?

(We have 1500 m² still a lot of work ahead of us ... I also like that there is a certain distance to the neighbor.)