A gentle invitation to realign with purpose, beauty, and peace halfway through the growing year 🌱 Opening Reflection: When the Garden Feels Like a Mess Mid-season is where reality meets intention. The beds aren’t as tidy. The plans may not have gone as hoped. Some crops are thriving, others have faded. Maybe your energy is…
A quiet invitation to notice, name, and nurture what endured 🌿 Opening Reflection: What Remains Is Worth Remembering By the time summer begins to wane, your garden tells the truth. Some things didn’t make it—burned out, bug-bitten, bolted too fast. But some things did survive. Some things kept growing, quietly and faithfully, even under scorching…
How to Water Wisely in the Evening—and Tune Into Your Garden’s Natural Rhythms 🌿 Opening Reflection: When the Garden Whispers “Wait” The older I get, the more I find that the garden teaches in whispers, not shouts. And one of the clearest lessons I’ve received during long southern summers is this: You don’t always have…
Keep the harvest going with a thriving, joy-filled garden through fall. 🧡 A Note from My Garden Gate By midsummer, my tomato plants are sun-fatigued, the lettuce is long gone to seed, and I’m eyeing every empty square in my raised beds like a puzzle waiting to be solved. I used to think the garden…
More space. More sunshine. More success. Thinning might feel a little counterintuitive—why pull up healthy little seedlings after all that effort to get them to sprout? But here’s the truth: overcrowded plants compete for nutrients, water, and sunlight, and that slows down everyone. Thinning gives your strongest seedlings the breathing room they need to thrive….
Introduction Radishes are one of the fastest-growing and most rewarding vegetables you can grow in a suburban Zone 9 garden. With some varieties ready to harvest in as little as 25 days, radishes are perfect for quick, successive plantings throughout the cool months of winter and early spring. Their small size and adaptability make them…
