Bloom and Peck

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Learn with me as I grow wholesome food, learn to reduce stress, and share nourishing recipies with simple, everyday cooking.

05/30/2026

Transplanting Homemade Pickle Cucumber plants - I really like the 4 cell trays as you can see the roots come out clean and easy for least amount of root disturbance.
✅ Amended my Kentucky clay soil with mature compost
✅ watered deeply
✅ growing on DIY trellis
Spacing and a peak at the DIY cucumber trellis coming in next videos!

05/21/2026

Sugar Snap peas on a cattle panel trellis in a Kentucky raised bed — and they are absolutely loaded right now. 🌸🫛
I walked out there today and could not believe the blossoms. Picked one right off the vine and... yeah. That crunch says it all.
Drop in the comments 👇 — is Sugar Snap your favorite pea variety to grow, or do you have another one I should try?
Growing on my Kentucky homestead — follow the page so you don't miss harvest day!
Want to know exactly when to plant peas in Kentucky by zone? I wrote a full guide for Zone 6 & 7 gardeners 👉 [link in comments]

Remember when this bed was just dirt in March? Tula Magic raspberries — the variety nobody recommends for Kentucky — and...
05/20/2026

Remember when this bed was just dirt in March? Tula Magic raspberries — the variety nobody recommends for Kentucky — and there are already red berries in May. Shade cloth is up, garlic is its neighbor, and I have no idea what July is going to bring. Full story of how I got here is on the blog — link in comments

🌿 Thyme is one of my favorite plants in the whole garden — and this raised garden bed is proof.That's thyme in the front...
05/19/2026

🌿 Thyme is one of my favorite plants in the whole garden — and this raised garden bed is proof.
That's thyme in the front, beets in the back. They're genuinely good companions — thyme tucks along the edges without crowding the root crops, helps suppress weeds, and keeps the soil from drying out too fast on hot Kentucky summer days.
I started with one lemon thyme plant in a metal tub. Now it's in my raised beds, alongside my broccoli rows, tucked in with peas and radishes, and I'm planning to add it to my strawberry containers next season.
It earns its place because it does MULTIPLE jobs at once:
✅ Repels hornworms, whiteflies, and cabbage moths
✅ Attracts bees and predatory wasps
✅ Acts as living mulch along container edges
✅ Drought tolerant (Kentucky summers don't faze it)
I just published a full guide to companion plants for thyme — specifically for Zone 7a Kentucky conditions, based on what I've actually grown on my Adair County homestead. Not just what the books say.
👉 See comments for more info

What are you growing thyme with this year? I'd love to know! 👇

I am in Central Kentucky, and Feel a bit behind, when I ask myself when to plant peppers or when to plant tomatoes in Ke...
05/19/2026

I am in Central Kentucky, and Feel a bit behind, when I ask myself when to plant peppers or when to plant tomatoes in Kentucky. I am getting them in the ground as we speak! When do you plant your tomatoes and peppers?

05/19/2026

had NO idea my De Cicco heirloom broccoli would get this big! 😲🥦
Planted April 8th — and just 40 days later it's already starting to side shoot. I'm growing this on my Kentucky homestead and honestly, these plants blew right past my 18" hoops. Time to move that netting up to 36"! 😄
Lost a couple leaves but overall? She's thriving. Come along for the journey — harvest day is coming!
👇 Follow the page so you don't miss it.

05/16/2026

It’s May 15th and hopefully the last cold day in central Kentucky, time to get these pampered tomatoes in the ground. The weak ones in though would die grew 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤪 so I’ll have to transplant those too. I have German pink, San Marzano, and Kentucky Beefsteak this year. What are you growing?

04/18/2026

Brrr! Gotta love the swing in that Kentucky April weather! Warm crops are coming back inside for the next 2-3 nights.
🍅 Tomatoes
🌿Herbs
🫑 Peppers
🌻Flowers
-all snug on the kitchen counter for the night. What did you rush to bring in or cover to protect?

03/16/2026

DIY T Post Raspberry Trellis is working great for my 8ft raised bed w 5 plants@in my Kentucky mini orchard. They have already grown another few inches since transplanting them from pots to the raised garden bed in zone 7.
I didn’t want to over think this project so I grabbed some t post from my pile and clothesline wire and pretty much ready to go.
✅ Don’t be crazy slamming the t post pounder and hit yourself in the head 🤣
✅ Heavy gauge wire seems to twist and hold its stretch well
✅ Most say two wires, I did 3 🙋‍♀️ my plants are small and I wanted to give them extra support
✅ if this raspberry patch was bigger I’d put in a center post and a way to anchor the end posts
✅ I like this simple raspberry t post trellis beyond can easily change it to grow w my garden
There’s a longer post about it on my blog - no crazy pop ups either 🤣 who’s got time for that!

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