How to jumpstart your spring garden planning 👇🏾👇🏼 1. Determine what seasonal veggies you want to grow. Consider what you eat most often. Warm season veggies include tomatoes, peppers, squash, melons, etc., and cool season plants include crops like lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, radishes, beets, car

1. You don’t have to grow it all- for most folks (including us), it is impossible to grow every single crop we eat in a year. But when we have the opportunity to grow foods that we eat regularly, it brings us so much joy! Growing something is better than growing nothing! 2. Experiment with uniqu

1. You don’t have to grow it all- for most folks (including us), it is impossible to grow every single crop we eat in a year. But when we have the opportunity to grow foods that we eat regularly, it brings us so much joy! Growing something is better than growing nothing! 2. Experiment with uniqu

Cauliflower is versatile veggie, but oftentimes it can be finicky to grow. Here are some tips to get you started: Planting time 🌱 We selected a sunny location in our garden to plant our cauliflower. We amended the soil with compost and then transplanted our cauliflower plants into the ground in

One thing about us, we aren’t wasting any homegrown food! We planned to make Meyer lemon lemonade, so we decided to save the peels first and use them to make our own lemon pepper. It couldn’t be easier to do! This lemon pepper is perfect for compound butter, veggies and chicken. Let us know

Sustainable garden girlies- what practices would you add to your list?!

I wish more people thinking of starting a garden knew that you don’t need to know it ALL before you get started. All experienced gardeners started as beginners, too! 2025 is the year you can start your first garden. Don’t wait. . . . #gardening #garden #gardener #vegetablegar

It is important to harvest broccoli at the right time, when the flower buds are compact and unopened. Once the plant starts producing yellow flowers, that is your signal that it is entering seed production mode. The yellow flowers are edible and quite delicious (slightly sweet in the beginning, the

2025 mood: harvesting from our backyard vegetable garden every day. 💚 Our winter garden harvests are rolling in- today we harvested our first Napa cabbage of the season. The leaves are incredibly tender, sweet and succulent. We can’t wait to dig into it. . . . #gardening #backyardga

Oh, and most likely to remain a mystery goes to all the unlabeled seedlings we planted in the spring. 🤣 What awards would you give your plants this year?! 🏆 . . . #backyard #plants #ediblegarden #urbangardening #vegetablegarden

There is never a dull moment in garden- each growing season brings unique fruits. This year was our first year harvesting apples, pears, cherries, sweet potatoes, roselle hibiscus, pomegranates, calomomdin, eureka lemons, Lisbon lemons and passion fruit from our backyard edible garden. Next year, w

We love simple pleasures like harvesting fresh broccolini from our urban backyard garden, after lovingly tending to the plant for three months. If you’re aiming to live a simple life, including growing some of your own food, you’re in the right place! . . . #backyardgarden #gardening

We love growing crops that evoke sweet memories and have cultural relevance. We will forever grow roselle in our garden, and lucky for us - it grows very well here in sunny Sacramento! What is one crop that you hope to grow in your garden? . . . #gardening #backyardgarden #urbanga