Ideas for Yards

10 Ideas For Your Yard

1. Make a walk out of stepping stones (make them yourself by using self-setting concrete).
2. Create your own rose garden.
3. Make a butterfly garden.
4. Aerate your lawn.
5. Reduce thatch (the layer of dead grass and grass roots that has accumulated on top of the soil surface).
6. Fertilize your lawn.
7. Mow high (higher lawn means deeper roots). Mow no shorter than 2 inches.
8. Build your own garden shed.
9. Outline your flower gardens with gardening timbers.
10. Purchase a few bags of landscaping pebbles or rocks.

15 Ways To Enjoy Your Yard

Here's a little motivation to get you away from your computer and out into your yard.

1. Have a backyard camp out.
2. Stargaze.
3. Lay on your back and find recognizable shapes in the clouds (kids love this one).
4. Start a collection (bugs, rocks, leaves, flowers . . . )
5. Spend more time with your pet outdoors.
6. Read more outside.
7. Use your clothes line as a giant easel.
8. Organize a neighborhood game night.
9. Put out holiday lights in the yard or find some summer-themed lights and put them up in the yard.
10. Run through the sprinklers (yes, adults like it, too).
11. Have a fire (if you have a fire pit) and make smores.
12. Watch a movie in the backyard, either on a screen or on your TV.
13. Play ping-pong (you can buy foam sets very cheaply).
14. Play cards under the stars.
15. Have a scavenger hunt in your neighborhood.