It's a good garden and a decent size ^_

_{so good in fact that the things that manage to germinate and survive the dog sometimes get bigger than they're supposed to}

One of the reasons we chose to buy this house/in this area was because the land size was still pretty good (though of course governments/developers are trying very hard to change that). I think J gets annoyed with our shade trees as they render a a decent chunk of the yard "unusable" for vegetables (most of which apparently want full sun all the time) and then I have to remind him that they keep our cooling bills down (if not for them we would have to run the house aircon a LOT more than we actually do, and even if you walk in to our yard off the street there is a very discernible 1-2 degree drop, and the kids have to run theirs pretty much all the time in summer because their shade tree died, and this is all stuff he knows).

If you're referring to the amazing bare ground with the "little more love" comment that happened some years ago when we had way too many chickens (J got excited with breeding them and having a million chicklets around was honestly pretty damn cute) and they ate literally all the grass to the point where it was unable to regenerate and just completely died.

_{if you ever need to completely obliterate an area of grass just run a big flock of chickens over it}

Then there was arguments with J and Eldest trying to make them understand that grass is a really good insulator (they both think it's just a waste of water because if you don't have the "waterwise" Australian grass you do end up wasting a lot of water trying to keep your lawn green over summer) and then I did the angry partner thing of telling him to just give me my freaking grass so he's very grudgingly letting it grow back into the yard just to keep me happy. It is orders of magnitude slower than buying turf and putting it down immediately and we can't really do the grass seeds thing as it wouldn't survive the birds and us traipsing everywhere in general ^_;