In today's family blog, Ben builds two arch trellises for our totally out-of-control vegetable garden. If you watched our previous vegetable garden video, you know that we made many mistakes this year, including not properly propping up our tomatoes and climbing vegetables.



Ben has a solution and builds his own DIY trellis. He and I truly are clueless gardeners, but we sure do have fun with our hobby.



The following are the supplies we used for anyone who is interested in building their own arch trellis.

First of all, let's start off with the most important supplies:



His Lordship mug



to go with my Her Ladyship mug

And now that we've gotten the coffee out of the way... Here are the other supplies we used to build the trellis:


Wire Mesh Fence


18 inch stakes These are the stakes Ben used to secure the fencing into the ground.



Wire cutters


Sledge hammer


We plan to document our garden the whole year, so we will definitely update you on the success of the arch trellis. We get heavy winds in the area we live, so I'm curious to see how the trellises hold up. I hope you enjoy the shenanigans in today's video.

Please note: the music used in the video is Dvorak no 12 in F Major Op 96 and Kingdom of Baghk.

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Hi Hana, I agree! We really do remember the things we were encouraged in as children. Affirmations for our children are very powerful, indeed.

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After being inspired by the kitchen garden at Anne Hathaway's cottage in England, as well as the grand gardens at Hampton Court Palace, my family decided to plant our own humble vegetable garden chez nous. It's been a fun year with a major learning curve and boy, did we learn a lot!



We learned that we can grow gigantic zucchinis, great tomatoes, pumpkins (on accident) and... WEEDS.



In today's video, I take you on a mini-tour.



This video was shot back in July (on my birthday!) and since then, we've had some updates to the garden.






I discovered that what I thought was a melon, is actually a spaghetti squash! (Note to self: label the vegetables next time).



The butternut squash is coming in nicely. We grow squash well here! I'm looking forward to making soups, pies, and casseroles with the squash once fall is here.



We have some watermelon coming in too!



We also had our garden weeded out. It looks a lot better now.

Thank you for joining me for today's video. I hope it brings you joy.

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We do so much to help children thrive instead of just existing. Why is it so common for adults to just exist instead of thrive? There is no way this doesn’t affect our health. #primarycare

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On Monday's blog, Refuse to be Dumbed-Down DETOX, Woman of the House writes, I have strong opinions about children and pop music. We do not do them any musical favors by submerging them in that style and genre. It ruins their voices when they try to imitate what they hear and it takes time away from learning the music they should be learning, such as traditional children's songs and folk songs. It also develops their taste for pop styles and it's hard to cultivate in them a taste for good music. This quotation from J.S. Bach sums it up well: "​The best method of instructing youth, therefore, is to accustom them to what is good. The right understanding of it follows in time, and can then still further confirm their attachment to none but genuine works of art."

I love the quote from J.S. Bach. Thank you for sharing it with us! I couldn't agree more.

Thank you for joining me for today's video. I would love to know... do you grow fruits and vegetables? Do you have your gardens under control? What's your secret? What are the things you grow best in your area? Let me know and your comment could be chosen as comment of the week on The Daily Connoisseur.

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