This post from August got caught in the gears. With autumn weather looming ever closer, my garden in the woods is starting to wind down for the year. An August drought paired with night time temperatures hovering in the low 50s has made it abundantly clear that my grow season is over. Now is theContinue reading “2025 Summer Review ☀️”
Category Archives: permaculture
🌷spring garden updates🪻
Spring in Maine is here and with April into May showers my gardens have started to fill out. Here’s what’s been budding out and blossoming~ Unlike suburbanites with their cult-like obsession with the perfect green lawn, here on the Sweet Potato Homestead I go out of my way to encourage and spread the divisive DandelionContinue reading “🌷spring garden updates🪻”
☀️ midsummer ☀️
My winter sadness stuck around and turned into summer sadness so my garden is not really where I was hoping it would be by mid-July. Despite it all, things are growing and thriving in the weird New England rainforest summer we’ve been having. deck plants (Top Left): Two kinds of pole beans (Scarlett Runner andContinue reading “☀️ midsummer ☀️”