Home Gardener’s
Weekly
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No. 136
August
08, 2025
Ready to grow your fall garden starts?
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.
Feeling off your game in and outside the garden?
If you’re battling low energy, achy joints, stubborn brain fog, or occasional digestive trouble, it may not just be “getting older.” These symptoms can all trace back to chronic gut inflammation—a hidden imbalance that quietly disrupts your body and focus.
That’s why the new Microbiome Masterclass from the Goodness Lover team is worth checking out. Featuring over 27 leading experts in gut science, it walks you through real-world protocols to bring your gut back into balance—boosting energy, mental clarity, and overall resilience.
In this masterclass series, you’ll discover:
• How to spot subtle warning signs of gut imbalance before they turn into bigger issues
• How natural, practical strategies (from fermented foods to simple lifestyle tweaks) support better balance
• What top researchers recommend for restoring gut health—without complicated routines
Weekly Garden Tip
Food waste is one of the biggest problems on our planet. A lot of people think that the waste decomposes in the landfill. While it may break down in the toxic dump, it contributes to methane production along the way and never gets back to the soils that produce food. More methane is produced in one landfill than our instruments can even measure. So if you only changed one thing about your footprint, composting would be a huge leap towards becoming more sustainable. And you can compost in as little space as a 1 gallon bucket with a system called Bokashi!
What if gardening didn’t feel like a chore—but like freedom?
If your garden ever feels overwhelming or like just another task on your to-do list, the THRIVE Garden Freedom Series is here to help.
This self-paced program helps you create a garden routine that fits your lifestyle, aligns with your values, and actually feels good to do. You’ll uncover what kind of garden works best for you, build habits that last, and reconnect with the joy of growing your own food.
Inside the course, you’ll learn how to:
• Discover your unique garden superpower
• Create a routine that fits your life and feels amazing
• Stay consistent without guilt or burnout
• Tap into your “why” for gardening
• Keep things fun, even when they’re not perfect
And remember … FUN is better than PERFECT!
🍅 BLOG 🍅
What’s eating my garden greens?
(5 common garden pests)
An ounce of prevention is worth pounds of fresh greens. 🌱
You’re planting delicious greens, picturing bountiful harvests… then suddenly—chomp! Someone else is snacking on your garden before you even get a bite. ARG! Pests are part of gardening, but before you can deal with them, you need to know who’s doing the damage. In this quick and helpful video, you’ll discover the 5 (okay, 6!) most common garden pests munching on leafy crops—and how to identify them fast.
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: Decoding Autoimmunity 10-Part Docuseries
Who: Zonia
When: August 11-21, 2025
Autoimmunity issues are on the rise—and chronic inflammation may be quietly affecting your health. Whether you’re already dealing with joint pain, brain fog, or fatigue—or just want to prevent future issues—the UNBROKEN: Decoding Autoimmunity online event offers powerful solutions rooted in healing, not just symptom management.
You’ll also get a special bonus: The 18 Most Nutritious Greens and What They Can Help You With.
As a gardener, you’ll love discovering how the greens you grow—like kale, collards, and spinach—can become powerful allies in calming inflammation and rebalancing your immune system from the inside out.
Your garden can help heal more than your plate—it can help heal you.
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN HARVEST CLUB
At last Monday’s Garden Jam, members chatted about squash growing issues, easy-to-install drip irrigation, how to increase soil water retention and more! To view the replay, 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: Could you please review how to harden off plants started indoors for beginners? – Barbra P., AZ
Answer: Hi Barbra,
Yes, I’m so glad you asked! This is very important for any grower planting their own seedlings/transplants.
Basically, a week or two before transplanting (depending on the crop) you’re going to take the plants outside. At first, you’re going to take them outside for just a few hours during the part of the day that most mimics your indoor environment, and you’re going to place them in the shade. Each day, you’re going to leave them out a little longer and expose them to direct sunlight more and more until after a few weeks, you can plant them in the ground.
For anyone who isn’t familiar with this process, the goal of hardening off is to gently adapt them to the outside environment. While the change from indoor to outdoor may not feel extreme to us, imagine you’ve lived your whole life in The Bahamas and you get on a plane in your t-shirt and shorts and fly to Canada in January. You’re going to have a very rude awakening! The chances that your immune system would get overtaxed and that you’d get sick are pretty high. That’s what we’re doing when we take our plants out of the indoor environment and throw them in the ground immediately. So, we want to adjust them to the wind, sun, temperatures, etc. outside gradually and gently.
GYOV CEO and Lifestyle Gardener Denise Beins had a fun mix-up in the garden this year—what she thought were kale starts from the nursery turned out to be rutabagas!
It was her first time growing them, and what a surprise harvest.
These root veggies are known for their earthy-sweet flavor, and Denise is planning to try them roasted and even pickled.
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