Gingerfoot Garden

Lannie 🇵🇭🇺🇸
Backyard Gardener in Maryland Zone 7
Home Gardening All Seasons! Happily Married

09/06/2026

Garden tomatoes just hit differently. 🍅

Instead of reaching for canned tomatoes, I used fresh tomatoes and other vegetables from the garden and the freezer to make Maryland crab soup. 🦀

One of my favorite parts of growing food is figuring out how to turn whatever is ready to harvest into something we already love to eat.

Garden-to-table doesn’t have to be complicated—it can simply mean growing groceries and using them for dinner.

09/05/2026

Sometimes you just crave the food you grew up eating. 🇵🇭❤️

I was craving Filipino food, so I made a pot of sinigang—and several of the ingredients came straight from my garden.

I used fresh tomatoes, long beans, chives, garlic and okra, along with Napa cabbage that I harvested earlier in the season and froze.

This is one of the reasons I always encourage gardeners to grow what they actually eat.

For me, that includes growing some of the vegetables and ingredients I grew up eating in Filipino dishes. And when something isn’t in season anymore, preserving part of the harvest means I can still enjoy it months later.

There’s something special about sitting down to a familiar meal and realizing that some of what’s in your bowl started as seeds in your own garden.

You don’t have to grow everything you eat. Start with one or two ingredients you use often and build from there.

What’s a dish you would LOVE to make using ingredients from your own garden? Tell me in the comments!

09/05/2026

You asked how the honeydew melon that started cracking on the vine turned out, so here it is! 🍈

Thankfully, I caught it early and harvested it before that little crack turned into a total loss. Once a melon starts cracking, I don’t like taking any chances—especially after waiting all season for it to grow!

The crack was still small, and the melon looked pretty good inside. Sometimes, knowing when to harvest means paying attention to what the plant—and the fruit—is telling you instead of waiting for the “perfect” moment.

Next time, I’ll try not to delay once I know the melon is ripe, even if I’m not quite ready to harvest it yet.

Would you still eat a homegrown melon that started cracking?

09/05/2026

I didn’t expect this little rose to be so happy growing indoors.

My local friend gave me this mini rose for my birthday last month, and they’ve been growing inside ever since.

And look at this bloom! 😍

I’m usually surrounded by vegetables, herbs and fruit plants, but I’ll always make room for flowers—especially ones that have a little sentimental value behind them.

Do you grow roses or any other flowering plants indoors? I’d love to hear what has worked for you!

09/04/2026

Welcome to my overgrown garden. 😂🌿

By late summer, the garden looks VERY different from the neat, tidy space I started with in spring.

Plants are spilling over their beds, vines have taken over, the walkways are getting tight, and everything looks a little wild.

But there’s also food everywhere.

So if your vegetable garden looks a little overgrown this time of year, don’t be discouraged by all those perfectly manicured gardens online. A productive garden doesn’t have to be a perfect garden.

Sometimes, a messy garden is simply a garden in full swing. 🌱

09/04/2026

Don’t underestimate what a small garden can grow. 🌱

Today’s harvest included tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, jalapeños, Scotch bonnet peppers, okra, long beans, raspberries, and blackberries—all grown right here at home.

When you’re gardening in a small space, you probably can’t grow everything. And you don’t need to.

Prioritize the vegetables, fruits, and herbs your family actually eats. Even small harvests throughout the season can add up to a surprising amount of homegrown food.

Grow what you eat and make the most of the space you have. 🌱

09/04/2026

Well… that didn’t go according to plan. 😂

I was determined to move my citrus plants into the Gen 3 Self-Watering Citrus Planter from Vego Garden because I really wanted that watering feed tube and bottom-watering setup for them.

I tried—but moving these established plants turned out to be a much bigger job than I expected. So instead of forcing it, I changed the plan. 🌱

The citrus plants are staying put, and my dwarf cherry, persimmon, and mulberry are getting the upgrade instead!

Sometimes gardening is knowing when to change the plan.

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09/04/2026

Any reason for me to go out into the garden is basically a trap. 😂🌿

It always starts so innocently:

“I’m just going to check on the garden.”

“I’m just taking the compost out to the bin.”

“I just need to chase that deer away.”

Next thing I know, I’m pruning plants, watering plants, picking tomatoes, picking peppers, dealing with bugs, finding something that needs to be tied up, and somehow harvesting enough vegetables that I have to use my shirt to carry everything back inside. 😂

There is apparently no such thing as “just going outside for a minute” when you have a garden.

And you’d think by now I would remember to bring a harvest basket with me.

Nope. Still using my shirt sometimes. 😁

09/02/2026

Why start thyme from seed when you already have a healthy plant you can multiply? 🌱

I’m using a simple layering method to propagate mine. I filled a 3-inch pot with soil from my Vego Garden potting bench, positioned it underneath the thyme, and secured several stems against the soil with butterfly pins from GreenStalk Garden.

The stems stay attached to the mother plant while they develop roots of their own. Once I feel resistance when gently tugging on the stems and can confirm they’ve developed enough roots, I can separate them from the mother plant.

Now I have another thyme plant to grow—or one I can share with someone else!

Have you tried propagating thyme this way?

09/02/2026

New to me this year: White Swan Marigold. 🤍🌼

This variety has definitely been a showstopper in my garden! The creamy white flowers stand out beautifully among all the greens, and one of my favorite things has been watching the pollinators all over them. 🐝🦋

White Swan is an African marigold, so unlike the French marigolds you commonly see in gardens, these plants can grow quite tall.

One lesson I learned this year: stake them early. 😅

I didn’t stake all of mine, and once the plants became large and top-heavy, some started leaning to one side and taking up more garden space than I planned. In a small-space garden, that matters!

Next year, I’ll definitely give them support earlier because I would absolutely grow these again.

Beautiful flowers, lots of pollinator activity, and a little unexpected drama from plants that apparently didn’t realize they were supposed to stay in their assigned space.

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