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!!