Find your WHY in the garden
Step 1 in the garden planning process is to identify your reasons. Here are some of the most common reasons my clients give for wanting to garden and how these reasons affect their plans and process over the course of the season.
Plan Your Garden With These 5 Questions
Use these five questions to create a custom plan that will take your garden from dream to reality.
What should YOU plant in your garden?
Considerations to help you decide what veggies and flowers to grow in your home garden in 2022.
Guided Season Wrap-Up
Before you get to planning for your garden next season, take a little time to reflect on what went well — and not so well — in this year’s garden.
Garden Tasks - October 2021
What to plan, plant, harvest, and maintain in your Middle Tennessee vegetable and flower garden in October.
11 Things To Track in Your Garden Journal
A garden journal is endlessly helpful. Here are some ideas of things to write down and keep track of in yours to make it even more useful in creating and improving your garden.
Garden Tasks — June 2021
What to do in June to keep your garden productive and pretty. Tips for food, flowers, and keeping your head above water as the days reach their longest.
My Favorite Garden Tool
An overview of how I plan and document my garden in a journal, plus some options for other ways to keep your own garden journal.
Seedling or Weed?
How do you know if that tiny green plant is a weed or the seed you planted?
February Book Club: Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook
My thoughts on this handy reference that includes most of the basic information and you’ll need for your veggie patch — doled out in manageable quantities each week.
January Book Club: Plant Partners by Jessica Walliser
This book is full of great info and ideas for planning a garden that leverages existing relationships between plants for more abundance and fewer pests.