I think I do about 1/3 acre here. A large part of this is off the land we rent in the field and my efforts there are simply to ensure the track is kept wide and clear. One year we had by far the densest and tallest area of thistles I’ve ever seen and I don’t think the pickup that delivers our logs would have got through it although I guess the person who empties the septic tank would have made it – he uses a big tractor.

We like to keep our own bit looking tidy (although at the moment there are a number of bald patches caused by mole hills) but (while we might refer to some of it as our lawn) that doesn’t involve say trying to turn it into a bowling green.

Going back to my parent’s last property in N Wales (about ½ acre with much on a slope and little depth of soil), that had a lovely patch of cowslips that we didn’t cut until the flowers had died down. Mum used to make a wine with some of the flowers but the cowslips came back more abu