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Weekly
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No. 129
June
13, 2025
Growing Healthy Transplants
Your Guide to Maximizing Yields & Nutrition from the Start
Ready to grow healthier, more productive plants? Growing Healthy Transplants is your guide to maximizing yields and nutrition right from the start. Learn the benefits of growing your own transplants, avoid common mistakes that lead to failure, and discover the key components for strong, healthy plants. With this guide, you’ll set your garden up for success, ensuring vibrant transplants that provide bountiful harvests full of fresh, nutritious food.
Weekly Garden Tip
Need help transporting or moving materials? Here’s a few things you might consider:
• Ask a friend or neighbor with a truck to help out. Offer to pay for the gas and a basket of fresh food in exchange for their help.
• Employ the neighborhood high school kids to come help move materials like compost.
• Get in touch with the local high school; many schools require volunteer work for students to graduate.
• Have a garden party with your friends and trade harvests.
Turn garden tasks into a fun, shared experience! Learn how to share your garden vision, offer herbal spritzers, guide others with “I do, we do, you do,” and keep spirits high with games, gratitude, and even a harvest gift. Many hands make light work—watch now and grow together!
🥕 BLOG 🥕
Grow $20 of Herbs Each Week – Small Container Garden
Running low on fresh herbs—or tired of buying bunches that wilt before you use them? With just a small container and a little planning, you can harvest up to 20% of your herbs each week without running out. 🌿 In this blog, we’ll show you how to set up a simple, productive herb garden that fits almost anywhere—perfect for balconies, patios, or even sunny windowsills.
What: 9th Annual Superfood Garden Summit
Who: Grow Your Own Vegetables
When: July 8 – 11, 2025
Get ready! The 9th Annual Superfood Garden Summit is almost here—and it’s packed with fresh inspiration to power up your garden and your health. This year’s summit features expert-led presentations on everything from The Healthiest Vegetables You Can Easily Grow to building a Garden for Better Digestion.
You’ll also learn how to create nutrient-rich soil, discover Unusual Super Fruits, explore permaculture principles, turn your garden into an income stream, blend up healing Herbal Green Smoothies, and so much more! Whether you’re a new gardener or a seasoned grower, this free online event will show you how to grow food that truly nourishes both body and soul.
Stay tuned—registration opens soon!
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN HARVEST CLUB
This week’s garden jam members learned what crops give you the most bang for your buck and time, growing greens in the heat, pest management for gnats and more! To view the sneak peek, log into your portal and click here.
🍅🥕🌽🫐🍆🌱 Get your questions answered and keep moving forward on your fresh food goals in Harvest Club! 🍅🥕🌽🫐🍆🌱
Not a member of our garden membership Harvest Club? You can get a one-time complimentary two-month membership with any of our courses. Harvest Club has tons of resources to help you thrive. Plus, you get access to ongoing garden support through email. Learn more here.
Dear Arti:
Question: Do I need to change my soil in my barrel gardens? If so, how often. Or what do I do to rejuvenate the soil? – Judy H., Wisconsin
Answer: Hi Judy,
At a bare minimum, you’ll definitely want to add a 2″ layer of compost twice a year. Normally it’s once a year, but because the barrels are much deeper than they are wide compared to a normal bed, I would personally do this twice a year.
And you may want to replenish the soil each year. How much of the soil will depend on how deep your barrels are and how healthy and nutrient rich the potting mix is that you’ll be using. You shouldn’t need to replace all of it. I would start with something like this each year:
Replace 1/3 of the soil/substrate mix. Add azomite and 2″ of compost to the 2/3 left, then add new potting mix, compost, etc. to refill the top third. Then see how it goes. If you find your plants are very healthy, next year, see if you can just remove 1/4 of the soil. If they’re not as healthy, next year try half.
Spring is the season of new beginnings—and in the garden, that means babies everywhere! 🌱
GYOV CEO and Lifestyle Gardener Denise Beins just shared some sweet signs of the season from her own garden: tiny grapes beginning to form on the vine and young blueberries starting to grow. It’s a magical reminder of how life unfolds slowly, beautifully, and with just a little care.
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