bepperb
ArboristSite Lurker
I think this would be a fantastic discussion if....
I think this would be a fantastic discussion if we weren't singling out the original poster.
Most people only have so much space and you have kids and a car to park and want to grow carrots and things have to co-exist. And so asking this question here will get you a tree biased question and asking in a playground equipment forum would probably get the opposite. A balance needs to be struck. I'm no arborist but I do have three kids, I do have a lot of trees, and I do have grass in there too (and a kiddie pool, and carrots).
I actually have neighbors with anything from canopies raised 50 feet on all trees to just plain wild and I'm somewhere in the middle I guess, and that might be a similar but better discussion since the people who made the mistakes wouldn't have fingers pointed at them.
I think this would be a fantastic discussion if we weren't singling out the original poster.
Most people only have so much space and you have kids and a car to park and want to grow carrots and things have to co-exist. And so asking this question here will get you a tree biased question and asking in a playground equipment forum would probably get the opposite. A balance needs to be struck. I'm no arborist but I do have three kids, I do have a lot of trees, and I do have grass in there too (and a kiddie pool, and carrots).
I actually have neighbors with anything from canopies raised 50 feet on all trees to just plain wild and I'm somewhere in the middle I guess, and that might be a similar but better discussion since the people who made the mistakes wouldn't have fingers pointed at them.