Home Gardener’s
Weekly
Issue
No. 139
August
29, 2025
This common garden fungus can quickly take over leaves and stems, weakening your vegetables, fruits, and flowers.
Our free guide walks you through how to spot it early, prevent it from spreading, and manage it naturally—so your garden stays healthy and productive all season.
If you’ve noticed those white, powdery spots, this guide is a must-read!
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🍅 Newsletters: This is a members’ favorite! The newsletters are designed to be a light, fun, and informative read. Relax with the Harvest Today newsletters over your Saturday evening tea or Sunday morning coffee.
🥬 Garden Jam LIVE Q&A Sessions: These sessions are about getting to know your community, increasing your learning, and getting your questions answered. Every garden is unique and this is where you can get ongoing personal garden support! Sessions are recorded and time stamped so you can revisit the Jam Sessions any time in your portal or watch them for the first time, if you aren’t able to attend LIVE. PLUS enjoy the archive that includes over 100 recorded LIVE Q&A sessions.
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🧄 The Archive: The Harvest Club Archive is your place to find the resources that you need to keep moving forward and reaching your fresh food goals. In addition to the newsletters and Garden Jams, you have access to vegetable, fruit, and herb guides; pest and disease guides; checklists to help you grow your knowledge base; templates to keep you organized; step-by-step tutorial videos; and much more!
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Get a sneak peek at the Container Gardening Course video! Learn to customize your container garden based on your space, budget, and lifestyle. Crystal covers safety tips for various materials like wood, metal, plastics, and more, plus climate considerations, lifestyle impacts, and proper sanitizing methods. Perfect for gardeners of all levels!
Back by popular demand! It’s harvest time for many and this masterclass couldn’t be more timely!
What: Free Masterclass: 3 Simple Strategies to Preserve Your Harvest—Without the Overwhelm
Who: Grow Your Own Vegetables
When: Airing Now
🫙Preserve Your Harvest—The Easy Way!
With grocery prices climbing, growing and preserving your own food is one of the smartest ways to keep healthy, organic meals on the table—year-round.
In this FREE Masterclass with Stacey Murphy, you’ll learn how to:
🥕 Simplify preserving and storing your harvest—without overwhelm
🥕 Keep produce fresh for 6–12 months—from your garden or the farmer’s market
🥕 Plan ahead so you grow the right foods for long-term storage
🥕 Use a simple system for canning, fermenting, dehydrating, pickling & more
BONUS: You’ll get a free planning worksheet to help map out your own food preservation strategy.
Don’t let your harvest go to waste. Join the masterclass and learn how to preserve it the smart, simple, and delicious way!
What: Uncovering the Secrets to Longevity: Live Beyond the Norms
Who: Chris Burres, My Vital C
When: September 10 – September 16, 2025
You’re invited to the complimentary online event, Uncovering the Secrets to Longevity: Live Beyond the Norms, running from September 10-16, 2025. Over 50 experts, including Dr. Steven Gundry, Dave Asprey, and Ben Greenfield, will share strategies to help you feel younger, live longer, and thrive at every stage of life.
Discover insights on genetic testing, mindsets for a healthy life, and practical tips for optimizing your diet, fitness, and lifestyle—so you can stay healthy and active enough to enjoy your garden for years to come. Unlock your healthiest years yet and continue cultivating your garden of vitality!
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN HARVEST CLUB
The new Garden Jam replay is available. 🎉
It was packed with practical tips and lively discussion. We covered everything from when to add compost and whether blending veggie scraps for the garden attracts pests, to how long compost holds its benefits. Members also shared what’s thriving (or struggling!) in their gardens, how to handle wasps, and tricks for beating the heat in Arizona. Curious about nitrogen’s impact on baby plants? Don’t miss this replay!
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Dear Arti:
Question: Based on rotation planting, is there a list of succession planting? For example, if I planted tomatoes in area one in year one, what do I plant in that lot in year two, three, etc.? – Hazel C., Toronto Canada
Answer: Hi Hazel,
This is such an important concept to understand for successful gardening. It’s also a REALLY big topic. But here are a few tips to get you started:
If you plant tomatoes in an area of your garden, you won’t plant anything from the Solanaceae family for another 4 years. So, no tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, eggplant, etc. You want to plan your crop rotation based on plant families, not just the individual crop.
Succession planting is entirely different. Succession planting is the number of rounds of a crop you can get in the same place within that growing year. For example, radish grow in spring and fast-growing varieties mature in as little as 23 days! Spring lasts for longer than 23 days in many places, though. So once your radish matures, you can harvest and immediately plant another round of radishes, giving you 2 successions of radishes. In some places that have shorter summer seasons, like Canada, you can have many rounds of many cold crops in before winter sets in.
Hopefully that helps set you on the right track for proper crop rotation and many successions for you, Hazel! 🙂
GYOV CEO and Lifestyle Gardener Denise Beins is savoring the simple joys of summer—popping sun-warmed cherry tomatoes straight from the vine! It’s one of her favorite garden treats, perfectly sweet and refreshing while watering the beds. She loves filling her pockets to share handfuls with friends and neighbors, too. After all, the best part of growing your own food isn’t just the harvest—it’s the joy of sharing those fresh, delicious bites with others.
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