"BearDrummer" wrote in
ups.com:

There are 2 reasons for this post... 1: so I can brag on my
little girl, and 2: to get other people to brag on their
kids, too...

My 6 year old daughter has a little garden "all her own"...
she started the seeds, helped plant the seedlings, and she
waters them on a semi-regular basis...


She got to see her first flower in her garden today - one
of the oriental peas flowered - and is already producing a
pod... she is so excited I had to show her a "full grown
pea pod" to keep her from picking and eating it right
then... She is very excited!!

my 4.75 year old is on his 2nd year of 'his own' gardening.
we're in NH, so he only has lettuce out in the garden, but he
has several tomatoes & peppers (both hot & sweet), plus
watermelon & pumpkins started under lights indoors.he also has
moonflowers, bells of Ireland, hollyhocks & four o'clocks
under the lights (i had to go look. i don't always remember
what he's started). we buy marigolds to plant with the basil &
tomatoes & he'll probably start nasturtiums outside after last
frost date (2 more weeks).
he's asked me to help him build a bean teepee & he got ahold
of my Making Bentwood Trellises (Jim Long) book, so he has a
few projects in there picked out, including a trellis for the
moonflowers.
oh yeah, he has 4 flats of pansies ready to go out too... and
2 windowboxes on the enclosed porch, one with beets & one
carrots. he's definately been bitten by the garden bug
lee