WE DON’T ONLY GROW FOOD,🐓🌽🐐 WE GROW MINDS 🙍🏿🙎🏿‍♀️👩🏿‍🦱 Watch the magic of learning come alive in the Let’sGrow+231 Children’s Learning Garden! 🌿✨ In this inspiring first harvest, our young gardeners proudly pick the cherry tomatoes 🍅, okra, jute leaves, and green string beans they planted themselves—right in their no-walls, open-air classroom. Guided by gardener Veadeh, these kids are discovering that education can grow beyond books and into the soil! From planting tiny seeds to harvesting fresh, healthy vegetables, this journey is all about hands-on learning, teamwork, patience, and joy. 🌱💚 This is more than a garden… it’s a classroom without limits, where children grow food, confidence, and a love for nature. 👉 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe to Let’sGrow+231 for more inspiring gardening stories! #LetsGrow231 #ChildrensGarden #FirstHarvest #OrganicGardening #GrowYourOwnFood #LearningByDoing #AfricaGardens #KidsWhoGrow

So, last winter (January 2025) I bought jasmine officinale cuttings from an Etsy vendor. The listing was for 10 cuttings, she sent 14. I dipped them in rooting hormones (organic) and put them in a pot in a south facing window and 12 formed roots. I moved them into larger pots on the back porch when it warmed up outside and once the ground was nice and warm started putting them in the ground. Most of them are along two sides of our shed in the back yard with 2" x 3" wire fencing mesh as a trellis since jasmine can get quite large. The last one is in my front flower bed. I only lost one of the plants after putting them in the ground. They are forming flowers! Most of the buds are in the ones that are facing south, but all of the plants are greening up nicely! I am so excited about how well these are doing! I love jasmine green tea and I plan on using the flowers for tea once they really start producing!

Dear Soil Aficionados, The statewide Historic Garden Week Tour has wrapped up. My neighborhood's managing garden club (there are dozens statewide) estimated over 1,100 ticket sales. It "felt" like around 500 people. I used LLMs multiple times, daily on plant compatibility, weeds, even hardscape and decor. 🌺The docents were magnificent in their greeting, crowd flow, and scripts. 🍊 200 years of history were displayed across 3 tables with pink/orange table runners and cloths. A fragrant pink peony arrangement adorned a patio table. 🌺 Even the great granddaughter of a prior owner from 1900 came by and sat next to the house portrait painted by her greatgrandmother. ...in an old Windsor chair, for theme's sake. 🍊 So many new connections, existing neighbors, plus friends and family from neighboring states. 🩷🧡 GRATEFUL 🩷🧡 For a few days, the skool app would crash, so I took it as an omen to recharge and clean up!

Excellent wormy soil, spring, and the roses buds are starting to bloom. Woohoo! 💐

I planted some asparagus crowns last year, and look what I harvested yesterday! I can't believe I got some that look this good already. I plan on steaming them today to enjoy.