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May 5, 2014 by: Ashley Greenwood

Kid Created Garden Trellis

Our entire family is in love with our newly built DIY Container Garden. When I asked the boys to help build a Garden Trellis for the peas they were more than willing to help gather and saw sticks for the project!

Kid Created Garden Trellis by 3 Little Greenwoods

Like everything else in our garden, the sugar snap peas we planted from seeds are growing bigger each day.

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See those tender tendrils? They are looking for something to grow up. container gardening

A trellis is just what they need! Of course, we could have hopped in the truck to head to Home Depot for a pre-made trellis but why buy one when we could make one!

Little Boy spotted the perfect sticks in a neighbor’s yard debris pile. Nice, straight, and the perfect diameter for making a DIY trellis.

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I can see what he is thinking… these would make awesome fishing poles! 😉

kid made garden trellis

After looking in the garden, we decided our trellis needed to be 2-3 feet wide. Big Boy began to measure and cut the 4-5 pieces that would go across the trellis. kid made garden trellis

Next we laid all the pieces out on the table {left over from the boys’ fantastic Backyard Campout Birthday Party}. diy garden trellis

Once I shared with the boys how to wrap the pieces together with yarn, they began to secure the trellis together. DIY garden trellis

And that lasted for about five minutes…

Time for the zip ties! container gardening

The zip ties held the trellis together well enough but we still added yarn to most of the junctions. Adding the yarn gave the structure extra support. container gardening

Here’s silly Little boy modeling the finished garden trellis. Love his missing front teeth!Kid Created Garden Trellis by 3 Little Greenwoods

The happy little sugar snap peas are already clinging to the trellis and growing up.container gardening container gardening

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We are crossing our fingers it will only be a few more weeks we have sweet peas to eat!

Want to see how we started “farming”?

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Comments

  1. 1

    Suzanne of Simply Suzannes at Home says

    May 5, 2014 at 9:36 am

    Suzanne of Simply Suzanne at Home

    LOVE LOVE natural looking trellis! Your son did a great job :0)
    Thanks so much for sharing.
    Have a great Monday,
    Suzanne

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      3littlegreenwoods says

      May 5, 2014 at 12:40 pm

      Thanks Suzanne!I’m sure our neighbors were wondering what in the world we were doing dragging all those sticks down the street back to our house. But they did make the best trellis! 😉

      Reply
  2. 3

    Jess says

    May 5, 2014 at 12:04 pm

    This is such an adorable project! 🙂

    Thanks for joining the Link Up this week!

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  3. 4

    Heather {Woods of Bell Trees} says

    May 5, 2014 at 11:22 pm

    Yes those little missing teeth are too cute! I love this! We have some sticks we should do this with! Love this idea so much!

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    • 5

      3littlegreenwoods says

      May 6, 2014 at 8:00 am

      My Little boy is so cute with is missing teeth smile! I have no idea what type of trees those stick came from but they made a great trellis!

      Reply
  4. 6

    Patti says

    May 7, 2014 at 9:36 am

    What do you mean for the kids?! This is perfect for ME and my brown thumb!

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    • 7

      3littlegreenwoods says

      May 7, 2014 at 2:13 pm

      Well… like I said in the post, the boys’ attention span zeroed out about 5 minutes into the project so most of it’s mama made. 😉 My sweet little sugar snap peas need something to grow up!

      By the way, I am loving all your garden update photos you are sharing! Keep them coming!

      Reply
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    Tammy says

    May 8, 2014 at 10:03 am

    I am needing a trellis for my garden and this is a great idea. Thanks for sharing and I will be pinning for later.

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    • 9

      3littlegreenwoods says

      May 8, 2014 at 1:11 pm

      Hey Tammy!

      Thanks so much for pinning our garden trellis! I wish I had dragged more of those great sticks from the trash pile. A fence around the garden would be so cute made of those!

      Reply
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    Mary Beth @ Cupcakes and Crinoline says

    May 12, 2014 at 7:43 pm

    Thank you so very much for sharing this wonderful project at last week’s Project Inspire{d} ~ it’s my feature of the week ~ pinned and stumbled.

    I hope you join the party again this week.

    hugs, mary beth

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    • 11

      3littlegreenwoods says

      May 16, 2014 at 10:07 pm

      I am so honored to be chosen by you as a feature. Thanks so much for pinning our garden trellis!

      ~ Ashley

      Reply
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    April@NaturalNester says

    May 12, 2014 at 9:34 pm

    Visiting from A Bowl full of Lemons…I LOVE this! My 4-year old and I made a teepee trellis for our beans too. I love it when the kids get involved in the garden. Makes it even more worthwhile! Thanks for sharing this! We might have to make a version of this to go in our children’s garden area for Morning Glories!

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    • 13

      3littlegreenwoods says

      May 15, 2014 at 10:05 pm

      Oh a teepee trellis would be super fun! We have got to make one of those next year!

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    Courtney says

    May 12, 2014 at 11:53 pm

    Oh my gosh, I love this little project! I bet your kids loved making this and they felt so proud for contributing to the garden. I adore how the trellis looks so cottagey looking, that’s not a word, but I’ll use it. Thanks so much for linking up to the Be.You.Tiful Link Party. We appreciate you taking the time to link up and share your creative posts with us!

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    Courtney says

    May 12, 2014 at 11:54 pm

    I love this little project! I bet your kids loved making this and they felt so proud for contributing to the garden. I adore how the trellis looks so cottagey looking, that’s not a word, but I’ll use it. Thanks so much for linking up to the Be.You.Tiful Link Party. We appreciate you taking the time to link up and share your creative posts with us!

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    • 16

      3littlegreenwoods says

      May 15, 2014 at 10:04 pm

      Thank you so much! The boys are so proud of them and the trellis has come in very handy with our cucumbers too!

      Reply

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