A step-by-step guide to helping your carrots thrive in warm-climate fall gardens 🌿 Opening Reflection: Making Room for What Matters Carrots are one of the most satisfying crops to pull from the soil—especially when they grow long, straight, and sweet. But here’s the catch: that only happens when we make room. Because carrot seeds are…
Rebuilding your beds with compost, care, and grace before the next season begins 🍂 Opening Reflection: Feed the Soil, Not Just the Plants As the garden transitions from summer to fall, the temptation is to rush straight into planting—new seeds, new starts, fresh hope. But fall planting success begins below the surface. After the stress…
How to Preserve What Grew Well—and Why It Matters 🌿 Opening Reflection: A Harvest Worth Keeping There’s something sacred about saving seeds—especially tomato seeds. Maybe it’s because tomatoes are a garden favorite we tend with such care. We start them indoors when it’s still cold out. We harden them off, trellis them, prune them, talk…
Some mornings, before I even put the kettle on, I wander into the garden barefoot. It started years ago as a whim—an innocent desire to connect with the earth before the day rushed in. But over time, this ritual became something sacred. My feet became scouts, sensing shifts in my garden’s health before I noticed…
A Southern Soil & Sunshine Guide Rooted in Renewal and Intuitive Gardening 🌞 Introduction: What Happens When You Don’t Rotate In my early gardening days, I planted tomatoes in the same corner every year. That sunny little spot was just so perfect. But by year three, something shifted. The leaves yellowed early. The fruit was…
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…
