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🌿 Reclaiming Wellness Through Soil
🌿 Teaching Truth & Old Ways
🌿 Homesteading • Herbalism • Low-Tox Life
🌿 Helping Others Grow Gardens & Income⬇️
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05/23/2026

How I use my Garlic Scapes🧄
Garlic scapes are something truly wonderful because you only get them when growing hardneck or elephant garlic, during garlic harvest season.

What are garlic scapes?
Garlic scapes are the tender stem and flower bud of a hardneck garlic. They typically grow a few weeks before the garlic is ready to harvest(unless you live in the south).
Garlic is one of the few plants with two harvests. Harvesting the scapes is a vital part of garlic farming—if the scapes aren’t cut off, the plant expends its energy trying to grow its stem and flower, leaving the bulb small and flavourless.

What do garlic scapes taste like?
Garlic scapes taste like a unique blend of onion, scallion and garlic. They can be used in place of garlic or scallions on recipes.

How I use Garlic Scapes:
-Pesto
-Dehydrated or freeze dried to make garlic scape powder
-Chopped up and sautĂŠed in stir fry
-Chopped up, added to ice cube trays with oil, then pop in the freezer
-Pickled (I’ve never tried this but it may be good with some pickled garlic.

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05/21/2026

Are you killing your soil?👇

If your plants are struggling to grow, turning yellow, or just not producing like they should, your soil might be to blame! Here are five common mistakes that could be ruining your soil:

❎Underwatering- Your soil can become hydrophobic in some climates and environments, meaning that the microbes living in your soil have died because they didn’t get enough water. When soil is hydrophobic, it has a hard time absorbing water and nutrients.
🌿To avoid this, make sure you’re watering your soil and mulch your beds to help retain moisture. To help this, you can mix a solution of non-toxic soap and water into the soil to help absorb the water.

❎Overwatering & poor drainage – Too much water or bad drainage drowns roots and keeps plants from absorbing nutrients which can lead to root rot and depleted nutrients that are available for your plants.
🌿To avoid this, you can stick your finger abut an inch or so into the soil and wait to water when it’s dry.

❎Compacted, lifeless soil – Hard, dense soil blocks oxygen and nutrients, making it nearly impossible for roots to thrive.
🌿To avoid this, use a broad fork or other tools to help break up your soil before and/or after every season.

❎Adding the wrong amendments – Some fertilizers and soil boosters can do more harm than good if they’re not right for your soil.
🌿To avoid this, use a soil test (I like the one from ) to see what your soil needs and use organic amendments. This also helps to find your soil’s PH levels.

❎Over Tilling– Over tilling can wipe out beneficial microbes and disrupt the natural balance and environment your soil needs.
🌿To avoid this, you can practice the no-dig/no-till method of gardening. Less work and healthier soil! I simply top off my beds every season with compost and mulch.

❎Not using compost in your garden!
It’s like never feeding your soil…
Healthy soil = healthy plants! Which of these mistakes have you made before?

✨ If you’d like 🔗 to my favorite things I use to boost my soil along with some extra discounts, comment “SOIL” below and I’ll send them to your inbox.

04/24/2026

I kept thinking I could stretch one more season out of my wooden raised beds… until I couldn’t.

This is your reminder that sometimes “just one more year” turns into starting over again.

So I upgraded instead of rebuilding. These Evergrove beds from Vego are so beautiful and completely changed my garden space!

If you’d like to check out their gardening products and beautiful raised beds, comment “BED” and I’ll send you the link and code for a discount🔗🔗

04/22/2026

Gardening constantly reminds me that caring for the earth is a form of stewardship. 🌿

The soil that grows our food is alive and worth protecting.

Simple practices like composting help return nutrients back to the garden and reduce unnecessary waste. It’s one of the easiest ways we can work with nature instead of against it.

Feeling especially grateful for the gift of the earth this Earth Day. 🌎

04/16/2026

Tomato Tips: Part 2 🍅

• Know your tomato type before pruning
Do not prune or pinch suckers on determinate tomatoes. Always check your seed packet or look up your variety.
Determinate tomatoes set their fruit all at once and then stop producing.
Indeterminate tomatoes continue growing and producing fruit all season long.

• Mulch
Mulch helps retain moisture, regulate soil temperature, and reduce weeds.

• Support plants vertically
Secure tomatoes using twine, clips, trellises, or stakes to keep plants upright and improve airflow.

• Water at the base
Tomatoes prefer deep, less frequent watering.
When fruit is ripening, try to harvest before heavy rain to prevent splitting.

• Manage suckers:
On indeterminate tomatoes, I usually allow one or two suckers to grow. I often pinch a few off and root them to plant in other areas of the garden for a longer harvest season. If you like in a climate that isn’t hot and humid, you can probably get away without pruning suckers and still keep a healthy plant. BUT if you want larger fruit, prune the suckers, if you want more fruit that is smaller in size, do not prune.

• Check regularly for pests 🐛

• Feed when plants begin flowering-
I like to add worm castings or bone meal to support healthy fruit production.

Of course, these tips are optional, but I’ve found they help keep tomato plants healthier and producing longer. Some years, my tomatoes last into October here in North Carolina! 🌿

✨ Check out my page for Tomato Tips: Part 1

04/14/2026

Tips for Planting Tomatoes🍅

1. Plant them deep-
Tomatoes benefit from being planted deeply because roots will grow all along their stem. The deeper and stronger the root system is, the healthier and stronger the plant will be. I pinch off all bottom leaves and only leave the top two branches.

2. Give Them Space-
Tomatoes like air circulation! In dry climates, I suggest planting them 12”-18” apart. In humid climates, I suggest planting 18”-24” apart.

3. Calcium Boost-
Tomatoes need a good amount of calcium to produce healthy fruit. If you’ve ever gotten blossom end rot on your tomatoes, it is usually due to a lack of calcium uptake. I like to ground eggshells into a calcium powder.
I also add an egg in the hole...Before y’all come at me, I know that an egg shell can’t disintegrate in the time it takes for the plant to produce. But it may be able to leach out it’s nutrients into the soil surrounding it while in the ground. I also put a small crack in my eggs when planting. So perhaps it’s roots are up taking nutrients inside the egg... whatever it is, I’ll always plant and egg in the hole. I’ve planted tomatoes with and without an egg and the egg ones are always the healthiest and most productive plants.

4. Feed the Soil- I always add compost & worm castings to the holes when planting. I want to make sure that the roots have all of the organic nutrients that they need during production to remain healthy and abundant. Always add back into vour soil!

✨Comment “TOMATO” and I’ll send you 🔗 and discounts to my favorites!

5. Strong Trellises-
Not only will your tomatoes get tall, but then will get heavy (unless growing a dwarf or micro tomato plant).
It’s important to provide them with a strong trellis so that they can hold up their fruit and not snap in rough weather.

6. Mulch-
Mulching is very important in the garden and tomatoes are no exception! No only does it lock in moisture, but it helps to prevent soil borne diseases from splash back. Tomatoes are very prune to disease.

7. Water-
Tomatoes like to be watered deeply and less frequently. Think about their deep root systems.

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