gemini_sage said:
Liz, I feel your pain- lots of space here, but my ability to keep up the gardens diminishes with the passing of time. I think you're on the right track with beds of only peonies- that certainly does make for easier maintenance. I love my mixed beds, but they do make it more challenging to keep up.
I've been considering a nursery bed for new peonies and another for irises. Both would benefit from having space to themselves, at least till they mature.
I don't know how relevant this is to all of you who are blessed with and also suffer from having lots of land for gardening, but I thought I'd put it out there.
Jewish people have something called a Shmita (pronounced Shmee-tah.) That's where you're supposed to let the land rest for a period of one year every seven years. Over here (in the US), the closest thing we have is crop rotation. One way it's sometimes handled so as to not create a food shortage is to divide the land into 7 portions, and let one completely rest each year. It's a great way to allow your land to revitalize, and a great way to perhaps make things a bit easier for those of you with large amounts of land to garden. You literally let the land (or each portion of) lie fallow for the full year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just a thought....
