Awesome Backyard Ideas
Read This for Awesome Ideas for Your Backyard
28/12/2019
Want a fantastic backyard for entertaining? Looking for some color and flavor without a traditional vegetable garden? Your dream yard is waiting, no matter how much effort you do or don’t want to put into its creation and maintenance.
Add Some Fire
Who doesn’t enjoy a good campfire? Adding a fire pit to your backyard brings friends together, keeps the conversation warm in cooler seasons, and requires very little maintenance. Take an afternoon to clear a circle of grass and build a stone or cement-block ring for a simple, safe fire pit. Guests will love it, and it’s a fun way to spend a dark, autumn evening outdoors.
The one great obstacle to fire pits comes from your local government. Check state, county, city, municipal, and neighborhood rules for open flame on private land. They may determine the size or style of your fire pit. Even if you can’t have an actual fire pit in the ground, you can almost always buy a raised fire pit. These may be simple bowls with legs or artistic, wrought-iron creations. Whatever your budget, style, and regional restrictions, there’s a fire pit perfect for your space.
Try Wildflowers
People don’t give wildflowers enough credit. They brighten any landscape and require extremely little attention. If you don’t particularly enjoy the look or work of a manicured, formal garden, wildflowers will give you all the color with a fraction of the work.
Start by preparing your ground. Clear the grass – if there is any – and improve the soil with some simple fertilizer. This website can help you find the perfect soil enrichment product for your garden, like worm castings (compost optimized by earthworm digestion). Once you have the ground ready, you can plant your flowers. Although your local nurseries probably stock some local flora, if you aren’t picky about arrangements, a few packs of local seeds work just as well with much less labor. Simply shake them into your prepared soil, water them, and let nature take its course.
Start a Forest Garden
Vegetable gardens make your meals better, but the regimented layout of the traditional kitchen garden looks more like a field than a backyard. If you have a lot of trees in your yard, a traditional veggie garden may not even be possible. Fortunately, there’s a solution to both these problems, and it’s great for the environment, too!
Begin building your forest garden. These unique creations emulate a natural, woodland ecosystem with a variety of plant life that will provide throughout the growing season and continue producing indefinitely. A forest garden features trees, bushes, ground cover, and more. These give you fruit, nuts, berries, greens, savory herbs, and other treats. Keep in mind, this is a long-term project. Fruit trees usually need a few years to grow before they produce, and your berry crop will be limited by the size of your bushes until they grow.
Although a traditional vegetable garden isn’t especially fun to stroll through or host parties in, a forest garden is. It nearly always has something tasty to offer as an appetizer, and a walk through a garden like this is like a walk through some pretty woods. It provides an enchanting aesthetic to your backyard, helps the environment, and feeds your family. It’s hard to ask for more from a landscaping project.
Make an Outdoor Game Board
Games bring people together, and everyone enjoys feeling like a kid. Playing with super-sized game pieces makes everyone feel young again, a little sillier, and a lot more interested in old fashioned board games. Add a chessboard or Scrabble layout if you feel ambitious. If you want something simpler, checkers never go out of fashion. The internet has a million and one tutorials for making your own outdoor board games, but if you aren’t interested in DIY, plenty of craftier people sell them online.
Build a Shelter for Entertaining
If you want to get the most out of your backyard in all weather, consider some kind of shelter. This could be as simple as a tent or as involved as a pergola. There is a world of constructions in-between, and if you have a green thumb, you can use plants to make it even better. A series of wire arches can guide vines to grow as a tunnel. Cleverly placed hedges can offer shelter from the sun. Take time choosing the right type of shelter for your unique space, and ask a local expert about zoning laws and construction permits before you get started.
The best backyards are the ones people want to spend time in. Maybe that means a practical space full of food. It could be a party venue, complete with an elaborate fire pit and games. Whatever you add to your backyard, just remember, the most important thing is to make it yours.