Season 1 | Failures and a Winter Secret

Somehow along the way, I have lost touch with the things that make me happy. I stopped reading. Dreaded opening my laptop or my journal. Instead, I stared at the TV but did not enjoy anything that I found there. I ignored my garden and let it go with wild abandon. The seeds fell where …

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Reader, it has been a while

I have fallen hard off of the writing bandwagon. I'm not even writing in my personal journals or responding to mail. This past bit has been... well, it has been something. I feel that I have grown a lot and also not at all. I want to write, I just can't force myself. I need …

Season One | a potting shelf 🪴

Since around 2016 I have been interested in growing things. I have wanted to dirty my hands and get to business. I started small, with a few herbs here and there around the house. And then when I realized that I couldn't manage it with a busy work schedule, maintaining a social life, and being …

Season One | Hydrangeas 🌸

Many moments of my childhood were spent gazing out my bedroom window at the beautiful pink and blue flowers that, I believed, had been planted just for me. They were my escape. I daydreamed constantly about a village of Little People living inside the shrub. Now that I'm older, I know that my flowers were …

Season One | Sunflowers 🌻

I have wanted to plant sunflowers in our yard for the longest time. Sunflowers have always captivates me. Their height, specifically. Last year, in the Summer of 2021, I tried my hand at transplanting four sunflowers into our back yard. Of the four, only two really took. They did not grow much bigger than a …

Season One | Drip, drip, drip

Today is the day I try something completely foreign to me: Drip irrigation! It took many a YouTube video for me to actually get on the drip train, but now that I'm here I have the itch to connect everything to a timing system. Y'all, this was so easy once I figured out how everything …

Season One | Lightning & Roses

This evening was one for what I call the almost garden. I think perhaps I need a better name for it. It, meaning the idea that isn't quite an actual thing just yet. I think, for now, I may name the garden project lightning. It is storming as I write this. A beautiful, cooling spring …

deadheading and a potential new friend

I've heard that removing the wilted flowers from a plant will provoke the growing of fresh flowers. I believe the process of culling the old blooms is called deadheading. As I have just planted some new flowers in our front garden, I decided to test this practice. So, at 9 am I made my way …

for the bees | a little garden 🪴🐝

Spring 2021 is finally the season that I feel that I can start planting. I have done so much thinking and overthinking for the last few years, that I've decided to finally get things started. Last week, my cousin stopped by with bushes for my mom and this week I've decided to expand on that …

just the beginning

Last summer, a friend of younger sister's stopped by to fix up our little garden box. And, I think he did a good job. He changed out the rotting wood, rolled out new landscaping cloth and added fresh compost and mulch to the raised beds. And, while previously overloaded with gravel and rock, the beds …