A Southern Soil & Sunshine Guide Rooted in Intuitive Gardening 🌞 Introduction: Gaps Are Invitations, Not Failures You’ve harvested your radishes, pulled out a scraggly lettuce that bolted in the heat, or maybe lost a few seedlings to hungry bugs. What’s left behind is a bare patch of soil—and a decision. You could ignore it….
A Southern Soil & Sunshine Garden Rescue Guide 🌞 Introduction: When the Garden Groans I’ll never forget the first time I walked outside on a July afternoon and saw my sunflowers collapsed like they were mourning something. My heart dropped. Had I underwatered them? Overdone it with compost? Was it pests again? We work so…
A Faithful Check-In Beneath the Surface Every summer, usually around late June, I hit a stretch where my garden just… pauses. Things slow down. Plants don’t look as vibrant. My watering schedule hasn’t changed, and the sun is still shining, but something feels off. For a long time, I assumed it was just the heat….
Practical Steps to Protect Your Climbing Crops with Intuition and Intention When you’ve poured your heart into training tomatoes, cucumbers, or pole beans up a trellis, the last thing you want is for a summer thunderstorm to flatten weeks of progress overnight. Storm season can hit fast and hard—especially in Zone 9—and even the sturdiest…
If you’ve ever tossed banana peels into the compost and thought, “There’s got to be more I can do with this,” you’re absolutely right. Banana peel tea is one of my favorite garden hacks—simple, sustainable, and surprisingly effective. It’s a gentle, natural fertilizer that gives your plants a nice little potassium kick without overdoing it….
Why Your Tomatoes and Squash Are Rotting from the Bottom Up — and How to Stop It Blossom end rot hit my garden hard the first summer I grew tomatoes in raised beds. The plants looked stunning — full of leaves and flowers — and then I spotted it: a beautiful, plump tomato with a…
