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My favorite time of year! 🌱❤️Yesterday the weather dropped from 68°F in the morning to 16°F overnight. 🥶 But, Phoenix an...
12/29/2025

My favorite time of year! 🌱❤️

Yesterday the weather dropped from 68°F in the morning to 16°F overnight. 🥶 But, Phoenix and I were comfy cozy in my chair, by the fire, with my hot chocolate, circling varieties in my seed catalogs.

It's my favorite way to peruse and daydream without worrying about how I'm going to fit everything into the garden beds. That's the next part. For now, we're just treating these catalogs like the ol' Sears Wishbook. 😉

Are you making your lists yet?

And a very happy new year!
12/25/2025

And a very happy new year!

Another podcast friend IRL?!? Be still my heart!Got to hang out for a few hours with Kathy Gormandy of .blume today! You...
12/11/2025

Another podcast friend IRL?!? Be still my heart!

Got to hang out for a few hours with Kathy Gormandy of .blume today! You may have heard her on the show a couple seasons ago talking about growing cut flowers. Her enterprise now includes this cutie patootie storefront and for all her floral designs and classes.

She also took us to a great little seafood diner and the crab cake special was *chefskiss*.

If you are near Spanish Fort, AL you have to check out Kathy's designs for any occasion, special or otherwise.

A little more warmth before heading back to frigid Missouri! I love comparing climates in different places at different ...
12/09/2025

A little more warmth before heading back to frigid Missouri! I love comparing climates in different places at different times of the year, knowing what's growing here now isn't possible for us until spring. 🤣

Homeward bound!

12/05/2025

The gardens can wait.

When podcast friends meet IRL!I've known Bev from , the Drink and Farm podcast, and Positively Farming Media for many ye...
12/04/2025

When podcast friends meet IRL!

I've known Bev from , the Drink and Farm podcast, and Positively Farming Media for many years virtually, but last weekend we finally got to visit in person! It was only an hour or so at her cute little coffee shop, , but it was enough.

I am on a camper road trip with my husband and clearly hadn't looked in the mirror 🤣 but we post the real stuff, right?

Cheers to virtual gardening friends (including you)!

There's just something special about growing your own. Went out to pick kale for my juice, came back in with a bouquet.J...
06/30/2025

There's just something special about growing your own. Went out to pick kale for my juice, came back in with a bouquet.

Just grow something. Anything. It will change your life, I promise you.

There are the weeds that can be serious Trojan horses for our garden, like those mustard-family weeds lurking around in ...
06/24/2025

There are the weeds that can be serious Trojan horses for our garden, like those mustard-family weeds lurking around in the back corner or that beautiful datura that is actually a nightshade and will happily spread to***co mosaic virus to your tomatoes.

So, this week on Just Grow Something we’re reviewing plant identification of five different plant families by their most easily identifiable characteristics and why we would want to remove them from the garden (spoiler: pests and disease!). By the end you’ll have an idea of what to look out for and when to pull these pesky interlopers before they get a chance to create problems for the plants you do want to produce. Check out episode 255 directly from my website or your favorite podcast player!

Got to host our local Chamber of Commerce networking coffee this morning! Super proud to be a part of our business commu...
06/21/2025

Got to host our local Chamber of Commerce networking coffee this morning! Super proud to be a part of our business community.

06/19/2025

I PACKED some of my beds this spring and I have been astonished by the yield with some of them. Others remain to be seen but I don't think I can say any of them have been a complete failure. Some of the combos?
* Lettuce + sugar snap peas + tomatoes
* Bok choy + green onions + spinach
* Collards + mint + cucumbers
* Kale + beets + cucumbers (the stand-out winner!)
* Green beans + dill

How did all these do? What would I repeat and what would I change? Listen to episode 254 of the Just Grow Something podcast directly from my website or wherever you get your podcasts for all the details!

I always encourage experimenting with new techniques in the garden which is why I talk so often about interplanting and ...
06/17/2025

I always encourage experimenting with new techniques in the garden which is why I talk so often about interplanting and companion planting.

My experiments this spring involved a lot of very close but strategic pairings in my raised planters. I’ve usually been a bit more cautious with the spacing in my raised beds for a number of reasons. But I really went for it this year in terms of pushing the limits of what I can grow in a very concentrated space in my raised beds and, let me tell you, the results have been astounding! Some of them have knocked it out of the park, some of them could use some tweaking, and there are one or two that I will change up a little bit but absolutely repeat now year after year.

So, this week on Just Grow Something I reveal to you eight new ways that I interplanted crops in my garden beds, how I did it, how they worked, and what I’ll change for next season. Hopefully you’ll be inspired to really push the envelope in your garden spaces, too, so you can end up with fewer weeds, a higher yield, and more bang for your gardening buck.

Tune in to episode 254 directly from my website or wherever you get your podcasts!

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