Mastering the Art of Year-Round Vegetable Gardening: Tips, Techniques, and Inspiration

Discover the secrets to cultivating a thriving vegetable garden all year round with our comprehensive guide, "Mastering the Art of Year-Round Vegetable Gardening: Tips, Techniques, and Inspiration." Whether you're a seasoned gardener or just starting out, this resource is your go-to reference for achieving continuous harvests and keeping your garden vibrant in every season. Uncover expert tips on extending the growing season, protecting plants from frost, maximizing indoor gardening spaces, and selecting the right winter vegetable varieties. With step-by-step instructions, innovative techniques, and inspiring ideas, this guide empowers you to create a bountiful and sustainable vegetable garden that yields fresh produce throughout the year. Start your year-round gardening journey today and enjoy homegrown goodness in every season.

4/26/24 - Jalapeño update!

Roselle Hibiscus from local food forest ❣️

recently have been learning more about growing edible and medicinal plants and actually started lots of seedlings with my husband like beets, sugar magnolia snap peas, dill and catnip to name a few. It feels good to have started them instead of anxiously putting it off!! Hoping for some sort of harvest 🤞🏼

5•3•24 || my plants are growing

SOON 🍅

Physical media is still very important.

In 2021, I deactivated all of my social media. I had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and I found myself constantly triggered all of the time. I had been off of it for about two years, and when I finally returned, I saw so many updates from my friends, mutual friends, acquaintances, family, etc. that I had NO clue about— they were engaged, in new relationships, married, moved to new cities, graduated, having babies, and were in so many new eras that I had no clue about. They had my number, so they could have told me, and it really sucked that I didn’t get to see those exciting things in their life.

That stuck with me, and I started thinking about my family that was not on social media, namely my grandmother, who’s 91 years old, and how she may not see what is happening in the lives of her kids and grandchildren who do not live near her.

I call her often, and she used to always ask about my boyfriend and my cat and she wanted to see photos. I would send them to my aunt, and I would ask for her to show her, and sometimes she’s forget. That made me so sad that my grandma can be so disconnected from us.

So, I decided to get a camera and start taking as many photos as I could and mail them to her. I show her everything— my plants, maybe a meal I made, my cat, me while being very sleep deprived, etc.

I think she deserves to see what my life looks like, and I have fun showing her! This brings me to the point that physical media is important to have records of what life looks like for you.

Physical media is important to continue to expand the access that others have to you. I think this is relevant especially because we get so used to the prevalence of digital media and social media and we think it is connecting ourselves to the world, and to an extent it really is! But it does isolate those who aren’t on social media whether they prefer not to be on it, whether they do not have social media access due to censorship, whether they do not have social media access because they cannot afford the tools to have it, whether they do not have social media access because they cannot have access to media period (i.e. military duties), whether they do not have access to social media because it is beyond their time.

If we really think about it, we really push older people from access to us and the world in favor of something more technologically advanced, and I think that is unfair too. Accessibility means everyone can and should access it (to me at least).

Anyway, I hope this serves as a reminder or at least inspiration to continue to add physical media to how you share your lives— whether that is through journaling, letters, or even printed imagery that you can mail out.

In the meantime, I’m going to mail these to my grandmother so she can see my pretty plants, my pretty cat, and my pretty life.

Good morning all of Tumblr, from myself and my beautiful poinsettias that are still doing great! I got them at the end of November of last year. Please let me introduce Paloma and Preciosa, and with these tips in the link below on how to care for poinsettias long after the holidays, I plan to nurture them for as long as possible <3 *side note: Does anyone else name their plants? I'd love to see them :)

Landscape in DC Metro Inspiration for summer stone landscaping in the yard of a large farmhouse.

Starting celery indoors has many benefits, including an earlier harvest. So get ahead on your gardening by starting celery seeds indoors and producing your own transplants! 👉https://chokrihomeandgarden.blogspot.com/2020/10/how-to-grow-celery-indoors_16.html

Have Fresh, Vibrant, Nutritious, Varied Food to eat all year long 🦌🌲 (read below) 🌲🦌 Friendly for those in SHORT GROWING SEASONS, with BROWN THUMBS, in SMALL SPACES, and even IMPATIENT attitudes

(feat. one tiny thief 🤭 did you catch that?)

It gets properly cold where I live and I like to keep my space cool, so not many plants last the entire year with me. These are some easy foods I grow and nurture even when it gets frosty 🥶 They are also very NUTRIENT DENSE so that your nutrient profile won't have to suffer just because it's gotten cooler. The best part is NO SOIL is NECESSARY, so you don't have to worry about any mess. And you get to eat what you've grown within just a FEW DAYS, so you can switch it up all the time.

Winter Gardening Projects (to have vibrant plant foods for your kitchen even in the winter) 🌾🌱🦠🧅

🌾Microgreens (some are even safe & healthful for pets, like wheatgrass)

🌱Sprouts (very kid friendly project. my favorites have been fenugreek, lentils, buckwheat, alfalfa, and chickpeas. i wanna try herb sprouts soon!)

🦠Probiotic Drinks (yes I consider this part of my garden too! Good options are coconut water kefir, drinking vinegars, ginger bugs, and kombucha)

🧅Veggie Scrap Regrowths (like green onion/scallions & leeks)

4/20/24 ~ I found this tree hidden in my gardenia bush out front growing. Anyone know what kind it is? I pulled it up and planted it in a pot for now till I figure out what kind it is ☺️

There’s was a lot going on with my kitchen counter. I cleared it away after realizing there’s no need to have every kitchen item and ingredient I own on display 24:7- it’s a place to cook food not sell it. I left room on the breakfast bar for this though.

This is 2 weeks of growth aka the main thing on my mind during my vacation in Jamaica as it got closer to ending. I started with paper towels seedlings and transplanted them into cones. A total of 1 month resulted in this. #hydroponic #hydroponicgarden #watergarden #amazontech #amazonreview

I wanted to have a space to yell about gardening and my future hopes and plans for whatever space I might have where I can grow things, because no one in my immediate family or friends is into gardening and it seems to be all I can think about lately. So hi!

Tomato buds!!! Y’all have no idea how excited I am for these flowers. I’m enjoying growing plants that don’t have a use besides being pretty of course, but nothing beats the feeling of producing an actual vegetable 😁🍅

Another update on my container garden seedlings! The lettuce is still going strong (even though one is meeting its unfortunate demise after the plunging temperatures in this weird April season), green onions are popping up and out, and I’m seeing my parsley and cilantro starting to make its grand arrival! They are growing SO fast, and I literally am so excited to see what is next.

Started growing pumpkins from seeds I got last month! 🎃