Home Gardener’s
Weekly
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No. 132
July
04, 2025
The 9th Annual Superfood Garden Summit kicks off this Tuesday, July 8th—and you’re invited!
This free online event brings together top garden experts to help you grow more nutrient-rich, health-boosting food right at home. Whether you’re a seasoned grower or just starting out, you’ll walk away with practical tips, inspiration, and new tools to take your garden (and your health!) to the next level.
🌿 Power smoothies with herbs, veggies, and digestion-supporting ingredients.
🥜 Grow more superfoods year-round using succession planting and season extension.
🌱 Maximize nutrition by choosing antioxidant crops and preserving nutrients well.
🥕 Grow five top vegetables for immunity, energy, and lasting vitality.
👨⚕️ Support gut health with homegrown herbs and simple apothecary tips.
💩 Boost soil health naturally with compost, fungi, and regenerative practices.
📝 Design a regenerative garden using low-maintenance permaculture strategies.
🍓 Discover nutrient-packed superfruits like seaberry and elderberry for your garden.
💚 Use lifestyle medicine and gardening to prevent and reverse disease.
☀️ Cultivate emotional wellness through nature: grounding, sunlight, and forest bathing.
💰 Turn garden passion into income with simple business-building strategies.
🥬 Grow cancer-fighting foods—greens, berries, onions, and seeds—at any skill level.
Here’s what a few fellow gardeners had to say about last year’s event:
“I love all of the presentations. [They] inspired me to be more brave to grow and experiment in my garden. Very encouraging, especially at 72 years of age.” – Carolyn
“I am so new to all of this but enjoyed the info to encourage the possibilities of growing a healthy and nutritious garden.” – K
“All the knowledge is mind blowing!” – Debbie S.
“This summit is the best idea ever! For a typical person who wants a community, this is amazing.” – Shauneil
“These presentations have re-energized my desire to grow and share into the next level, so exciting.” – Mary
This Isn’t Just Gardening… It’s a Movement.
Weekly Garden Tip
If you live in a hot climate and need to keep the garden cooler, choose light colored stone or paint garden beds white to reflect more heat away.
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• The best time and method to plant basil for lush growth
• Tips to avoid common pitfalls like bolting and pests
• How to harvest basil for maximum yield and flavor
• Bonus: A simple recipe to put your fresh basil to delicious use!
And it happens all the time in gardening. Growing food poses A LOT of questions. It’s easy to feel uncertain about a lot of things: your climate, your soil, the kinds of vegetables and herbs you should grow … just to name a few!
When you are facing one of these questions, how do you know if you have a tiny problem on your hands… or an insurmountable mountain of a challenge to overcome?
That’s what this video is all about.
Discover how to tell the difference and what to do next.
🍅 BLOG 🍅
Build a Trellis for Your Garden
Want to grow more food in less space? A trellis system might be the game-changer your garden needs! Whether you’re dealing with limited space or simply want healthier, easier-to-harvest plants, vertical gardening can make a big difference. In this week’s blog, we walk you through how to build your own simple and effective trellis system—perfect for cucumbers, tomatoes, beans, and more.
Planning your garden just got a whole lot easier.
SeedTime is an intuitive garden planning tool that takes the guesswork out of when to seed, transplant, and harvest—based on your exact location. Whether you’re growing in raised beds, containers, or a backyard plot, SeedTime helps you stay organized and confident with a simple drag-and-drop visual calendar.
Here’s what you can do with SeedTime:
• Auto-generate planting schedules based on your zip code
• Customize your crops, layouts, and frost protection plans
• Organize your garden tasks with daily/weekly checklists
• Track your progress with a searchable garden journal and photos
• Learn with built-in how-to videos and seasonal masterclasses
SeedTime offers a free-forever plan to get you started, with powerful upgrades for serious growers. It’s like having a personal garden coach, scheduler, and journal all in one.
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.
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN HARVEST CLUB
This week Garden Jam members learned about the best compost for compost teas, moles, dealing with excess greenhouse heat, 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: I planted banana and it caught a disease that is yellowing leaves, rotting the body by worm, and spreading the disease to the whole plantation. What should I do? How to overcome the disease? – Kap
Answer: Hi Kap,
Oh no!
There are several diseases that can cause banana leaves to turn yellow. So, the first step is to identify the disease.
The most common of these are:
• Anthracnose or fungal leaf spot: Leaves turn yellow or brown starting at the edges and spreading inward.
• Fusarium wilt: Also known as Panama disease, this lethal fungal disease is caused by a soil-borne fungus.
• Black Sigatoka: Also known as black leaf streak, this disease causes leaves to develop large infectious lesions that collapse. This interrupts photosynthesis and can kill the plant.
• Yellow Sigatoka: Reduces the plant’s ability to photosynthesize and can shorten the green life of the fruit.
• Banana bract mosaic virus: Transmitted by aphids, this disease spreads mainly through suckers in the field.
• Banana bunchy top virus: harms the leaves and reduces fruit production.
The next step is to take action! Some of these diseases can’t be cured, so removing all the trees impacted immediately and burning any of the infected plant matter is vital.
In addition, you may need to remove some healthy banana trees nearby to be on the safe side and to help create a wide enough barrier to prevent further spread of the disease. This will depend on what disease it is.
Check out this beautiful rutabaga! It’s our first time growing them, and we can’t wait to cook it up in a cozy meal. Also fresh from the garden: a handful of garlic scapes. These curly green shoots pack a punch of garlicky flavor and are delicious sautéed or tossed into a stir-fry. There’s something so satisfying about growing ingredients you can enjoy the same day you harvest them—knowing they’re at their peak in both nutrition and flavor!
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