Such a dilemma! I don't know if I'd want to start over again. If I did it would be somewhere with more rain or at least more water!
5 acres does look big. At one point I love the idea of something that size, or perhaps even a little bigger, I don't think I'd want to now. I realise I struggle with what I've got and we're only on a 750m² plot. If I could garden all day every day, I'd easily manage it, but I've got others to look after as well. We were going to get together with my parents to get a bigger place, but I realised everyone else had their own priorities and I wasn't about to try and take on more than I could for their sakes. So now I'm happy enough with the garden I've got.
Got my first zucchini today, too. Grated some up with carrot to go with our meal today. What are your favourite recipes with it? My family don't like it much, unless I can kind of hide it in things, so they don't notice the texture if it's cooked. My daughter would eat it in chocolate cake, but hubby doesn't really like cake.
Oh if definitely be glad of a quarter acre block. And rainfall. It depends on what side we end up on. We definitely don't tend the whole 5 acres but even mowing can take all day!!!
I love zucchini parimgiana.. dip in egg and breadcrumbs and fry! Zucchini noodles... only blanch or just let the hot sauce cook them. Mandolin sliver them and add vinegar, olive oil, salt, basil, capers, fetta, red onion as a salad. I love them
Those ideas sound amazing! Thank you. 💚
I see that big area of grass in the drone shot. Do you have a ride on mower for that?
Yes, we do! It was super hard to get through the other day - big clumps of grass from a winter where it was too wet to get down there. I had bruises on my knees from the bucking bronco effect of the ride on! When we first moved we had no money and had to add 5k to the mortgage to get teh ride on as it was almost head high virtually out the back door!