Our Little Back "Yard"

It's not really a yard. It has no grass, it's a cement patio which luckily is all privacy fenced in. The younger children love to ride scooters, cars and the tricycle on it but it's a killer on their knees in the summer when they are wearing shorts. Poor Manny really skinned his knee good today and it was just almost totally healed from last week darn it! Now he's back to wearing pants outside again.
The little patch of soil and plants you see is all we have back here. It's about 20 feet long and almost 3 feet wide. It was just dead, dry dirt when we moved here 2 years ago -it doesn't really get much rain water- but I have been working with it and now it has 2 blueberry bushes, some strawberries, iris, day lily, columbine, trilium, and we just planted a few annuals. I really need to put a soaker hose in. I just don't want to spend the money on it ;(.