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How to Raised Bed Gardening With Kids

Building a raised bed garden is so easy with some kits that it's literally "CHILD PLAY."

This 2 minute video is cute of a young child, dressed in a clone trooper costume (so we've been told) playing with a raised bed gardening kit, in reality building a raised bed garden in the city suburbs. In the background you can hear lawnmowers and weed trimmers.

Decided this year to plant climbing/pole beans so they'd grow up a 'pole bean teepee'. Of course, mine looks more like a green bean tent (six legs and a crossbar) than a pole bean teepee.

The number of pears on the tree in July is quite impressive.  This is the second year in a row the pears have been very heavily fruitful.  (It seems that apple trees alternate years, which is why thinning of fruit is a common spring practice for those trees.)

But for growing pear varieties such as this one, it might not be necessary to thin the fruit in spring like those apple trees.

I took down our small greenhouse on May 29th, which is later than I should have taken it down (no surprise to my spouse).

You can see the vented 'windows' that can be zipped open/closed in one of the photos below.

You can also see from the skeleton of the small greenhouse how the aluminum poles (from a manufacturer, not made by me) connect together.