Slide

I always wanted to put a slide down our hill. We finally did, and both the kids and I love it.

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When I was looking for slides, I wanted a longer one but this one was far cheaper. Turns out it was the near perfect length. The hill wasn’t as steep as the slide needed to be, so we dug into the hill a bit. We made a platform out of a pallet we already had on had. I spray painted it with the kids, and it was anchored with some rebar. It ended up being a pretty easy project that is a lot of fun.

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Now we just need to landscape around the slide, I’m not sure quite yet what we’ll do, but certainly something other than bare dirt. Any ideas?

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  1. Heather says:
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    Wood steps? Maybe continue the pallet theme and make steps with pallets and do plants in-between the wood? Or maybe steps with cinder blocks and plant some succulents or strawberries or something? Or a rock-lined waterfall? Total hardscape with container gardens? A rope with knots in it to climb up? Or a web ladder sort of thing? Maybe you could excavate the hill out and create a climbing wall up there with a vertical garden, and then do just some invasive ground cover by the slide, which would not be excavated out?

    My first instinct was just have a grassy hill.

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