Outdoor space

[mickyc]

I take it you are referring to your yard as your garden?

I have both a huge yard and a huge garden (for veggies). I have 3 acres and the kids are allowed to play in a 1 acre space. I do not have it fenced but the kids know their boundaries!! They learn quickly where they are allowed and where they are not. I also don't allow the kids in my veggie garden!

[Lee-Bee]

Never, never look over the fence! It is always greener in other peoples yards and you realize what you are missing when you start shopping around!! I say this, but admit I always research our neighbors when their houses go up for sale...and we often check out their houses when they have open houses! Just to see!

We have a pond. We bought garden fencing (about 3.5feet tall) it all links together. We circled it around the pond. It looks weird but it keeps the kids and toys out. If it were just our daughter we would have left it open and trained her to stay away. But once you add other kids and more than one kid that just isn't an option. Would something like that work?

I do believe the kids would learn to stay out if you made it clear...but it would likely drive you bonkers to get them trained.

We don't have a large garden but we do have 9 smaller garden beds throughout the yard. This year I plan to do container gardening with them. Plants that are known to grown well in containers. Over the coming years we are completely redoing the yard and eventually will have a dedicated veggie garden but I don't feel like trying to get it going now.

My grandparents had a MASSIVE veggie garden in their yard and I have fond memories of helping out in the garden and eating endless fresh veggies. I would LOVE to do the same but know it would never fully happen. I hate bugs. A garden like that has more creepy crawlies than I care to handle!! I stick with easy care plants!!

[bright sparks]

Never, never look over the fence! It is always greener in other peoples yards and you realize what you are missing when you start shopping around!! I say this, but admit I always research our neighbors when their houses go up for sale...and we often check out their houses when they have open houses! Just to see!

We have a pond. We bought garden fencing (about 3.5feet tall) it all links together. We circled it around the pond. It looks weird but it keeps the kids and toys out. If it were just our daughter we would have left it open and trained her to stay away. But once you add other kids and more than one kid that just isn't an option. Would something like that work?

I do believe the kids would learn to stay out if you made it clear...but it would likely drive you bonkers to get them trained.

We don't have a large garden but we do have 9 smaller garden beds throughout the yard. This year I plan to do container gardening with them. Plants that are known to grown well in containers. Over the coming years we are completely redoing the yard and eventually will have a dedicated veggie garden but I don't feel like trying to get it going now.

My grandparents had a MASSIVE veggie garden in their yard and I have fond memories of helping out in the garden and eating endless fresh veggies. I would LOVE to do the same but know it would never fully happen. I hate bugs. A garden like that has more creepy crawlies than I care to handle!! I stick with easy care plants!!

lolol

I flipped houses for 10 years with my husband so I always get the itch to buy and move to renovate versus envying what it would appear others have that I don't. This is the first house we haven't done major renovations too but are at a point where certain things need to be replaced and we have entertained, likely stupidly, the idea of buying something already done. Current space NEEDS kitchen and appliances due to water damage and swelling of cabinetry and goodness knows what the previous owners did. Also a new furnace and we would like to finish basement so I have a place to be separate from our teenagers so I can study in peace come September.

Likely won't move though. I shuck myself out of that idea pretty quickly lol

[superfun]

lolol

I flipped houses for 10 years with my husband so I always get the itch to buy and move to renovate versus envying what it would appear others have that I don't. This is the first house we haven't done major renovations too but are at a point where certain things need to be replaced and we have entertained, likely stupidly, the idea of buying something already done. Current space NEEDS kitchen and appliances due to water damage and swelling of cabinetry and goodness knows what the previous owners did. Also a new furnace and we would like to finish basement so I have a place to be separate from our teenagers so I can study in peace come September.

Likely won't move though. I shuck myself out of that idea pretty quickly lol

That's what we used to do also. But with this current house, we have plenty of things to keep us busy, so I shouldn't get the itch for a long time! (I say this as we just finished a flip as a side project, lol)

[bright sparks]

That's what we used to do also. But with this current house, we have plenty of things to keep us busy, so I shouldn't get the itch for a long time! (I say this as we just finished a flip as a side project, lol)

It's addictive isn't it lol. And pretty sad that I am most comfortable and happiest in a high paced and stressful environment. If I can refrain from doing anything till school starts I'm pretty sure I'll be more than snowed under with all that being a full time student and parent entails

[bright sparks]

I take it you are referring to your yard as your garden?

I have both a huge yard and a huge garden (for veggies). I have 3 acres and the kids are allowed to play in a 1 acre space. I do not have it fenced but the kids know their boundaries!! They learn quickly where they are allowed and where they are not. I also don't allow the kids in my veggie garden!

Garden to me, being English, is green space so lawned area, flowerbeds etc. A yard would literally be a concrete space. Still considered a "back garden" but often referred to as a yard, at least to me. My vegetable garden is my "veggie plot" just an area of my back garden within the whole space. I have a veggie patch at the back of my garden now that is 30 x 15 so a huge lot for growing goodies, and the other 80 ft is patio with BBQ, conversational, dining set and umbrella and then grass with a wooden play structure, my kids trampoline and a small shed full of outdoor daycare toys. All is fully fenced.