Home Gardener’s
Weekly
Issue
No. 147
October
31, 2025
Introducing The Thriving Gardener:
Monthly Garden Masterclass!
We’re thrilled to announce a brand-new series designed to help you grow with confidence, knowledge, and ease — month after month!
Each month, we’ll bring you a live, interactive masterclass with top gardening experts. You’ll learn actionable tips, strategies, and insights — plus get your questions answered during a live Q&A.
Why Join:
• Live expert guidance and practical tips you can use right away
• Get answers to your gardening questions
• Replay available if you can’t make it live
To kick things off…
Mastering Water Harvesting for Your Garden
With Greg Peterson
November 4, 2025, at 4pm ET/ 1pm PT
Discover how to capture, store, and use water wisely — from rainwater and gray water to storm water — so your garden thrives year-round, even in dry spells.
In this live masterclass, you’ll learn how to:
• Collect and store rainwater efficiently for your garden
• Safely reuse gray water and make the most of every drop
• Manage stormwater to prevent waste and protect your plants
• Reduce water bills while keeping your garden healthy and productive
• Apply practical strategies that you can implement immediately
Don’t miss this opportunity to become a more confident, resourceful, and thriving gardener!
🐝 Manage garden pests by adopting a mindset of sustainability
🕷 Partner with Mother Nature & let her do the hard work
🌱 Observe & analyze your problems to create the best solution for you
🐛 Reduce the time and $$$ you spend on pest management
🐞 Skip the chemicals–they often make things worse in the long run
🐜 Steps for implementing & inviting beneficials to your garden
🌼 General protector insects & lesser-known beneficials to make friends with
🦋 How to plant crops & flowers for beneficials (& pest reduction)
Our Online Format Fits Your Busy Schedule
Access what you need, when you need it!
4 Lessons teaching you how to Partner with Mother Nature for a thriving garden: Watch pre-recorded videos any time you like from anywhere with a good internet connection. You have lifetime access to these materials. The lessons are ready for you to get started right away.
There are so many benefits you can harvest from Partnering with Mother Nature. Through these lessons you will learn:
🐝 Get excited about the friends in your garden
🐜 Learn about the 3 types of garden protectors that prey on insects that attack your plants
🦋 Discover why soil microbes create a healthy ecosystem for your plants to thrive
🐞 Explore questions you can ask to be sure you are partnering with (and not against) Mother Nature
🐛 Learn to be patient and trust in your observations
🕷 Be encouraged to be in gratitude and humility with your garden
Weekly Garden Tip
If you want a decent-sized okra crop, you’ll ideally want to plant 15 plants. Harvest every other day. That will give you about 15 okra every other day.
Pick them when they’re small. When they get too big, they’re very fibrous and leaving fruit on the plant will delay further production of new, juicy okra. Only let the okra get large at the end of the season for seed saving.
Free Resource
Edible Plants for Beneficials
🌼 Partner With Nature to Grow More—With Less Work!
Trying to do all the garden work yourself means you’re working harder than you need to! The best growers know the secret—partner with Mother Nature. By planting certain flowers, you’ll attract beneficial insects that help manage pests and protect your precious greens.
Even better, many of these plants are edible, so you don’t have to give up valuable garden space to get nature’s helpers on your side. In fact, adding them can actually increase your yields while giving you extra harvests!
Inside this complimentary Edible Flowers for Beneficials Guide you’ll discover:
🐞 8 keys to successfully attracting beneficial insects
📏 How much space to dedicate to beneficial plants
🐝 30+ edible flowers that beneficials love
Why sacrifice your harvest when you can plant for you and the beneficials?
From a high-rise balcony to community plots, Martha has always found happiness with her hands in the soil and nature all around.
Her story is a beautiful reminder that growing your own food isn’t just about the harvest—it’s about connection, learning, and love. Watch now to discover her secret to lasting joy (and a few garden tips you can use, too!).
Fire Cider from Farm on Central
Looking for a natural way to boost your immune system and keep colds at bay?
Fire Cider might be just what your body needs!
This traditional tonic combines apple cider vinegar, ginger, horseradish, garlic, and other warming herbs and spices to help improve circulation, support digestion, and strengthen your immune defenses.
It’s a simple, spicy, and powerful way to stay healthy through the season—plus it’s easy to make at home.
What: Full Body Fix
Who: Fitness Doctor
When: Starts November 1st
Feeling a little slower getting out of bed or noticing more stiffness than you used to? Those “signs of aging” aren’t inevitable—and they can be reversed!
Join this FREE 5-Day Event to discover simple, clinically proven methods that help your body move better, feel stronger, and look younger—without expensive treatments or hours at the gym.
You’ll learn:
✅ Easy movements that heal and boost vitality
✅ Natural ways to reverse aging symptoms
✅ How to feel your best at any age
What: Ageless: Turn Back the Clock & Become AGELESS
Who: Zonia
When: November 3-13, 2025
What if you could rewind your body’s age… and stay younger, healthier, and sharper for life?
It’s not science fiction. A 2016 Nobel Prize-winning study proves your body can age in reverse—and people around the world are already doing it.
Imagine joints that no longer ache, skin that glows, hair that grows thicker, and memory that’s razor-sharp—all without extreme diets, costly treatments, or medications.
Fifty top longevity experts reveal how you can tap into this breakthrough to rejuvenate every cell, refresh your organs, and turn back the clock on aging—all from home and mostly for free.
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN HARVEST CLUB
This Week’s Garden Jam Replay is Live!
Learn quick composting tips for both lazy and hands-on gardeners, then catch the Q&A replay covering questions like non-organic fruit trees, using daikon and fava beans as cover crops, and what else you can grow indoors over winter. Watch now and turn your scraps—and your questions—into garden gold!
To view the replay, log into your portal and click here.
🍅 Harvest Club is your go-to for garden tips, Q&A, and fresh food inspiration! 🥕
Not a member yet? Harvest Club has tons of resources to help you thrive. Plus, you get access to ongoing garden support through email. Learn more and join us here.
Dear Arti:
Question: How do you best keep micro greens fresh? – Melvin, Grew up on a farm.
Answer: Hi Melvin,
To keep microgreens fresh, harvest them only when you’re ready to wash and eat! When microgreens are ready to harvest, it doesn’t mean you have to harvest them right away. Even fast-growing varieties like radish can hold for 3-5 days depending on the temperatures. So, harvesting fresh is always the best way.
Now, if you need to harvest them, I would harvest at peak water intake; this is usually the day after watering, when you want to cut, but DO NOT WASH until ready to eat, then store in a plastic container with a deli pad (the kinds that have a waterproof barrier on top and a moisture pad on the bottom). Spray the moisture pad with water and put the watered side down, then keep in the fridge away from the coldest spot where the air comes out.
Enjoy! 🙂
As many plants are starting to come to the end of their growth cycles, it’s a great time to harvest seeds for the next growing season.
Shown here are some seeds from GYOV CEO and Lifestyle Gardener Denise Beins’ Himalaya marigold plant. Seeds are fascinating!
Just this small handful of seeds is more than enough to plant throughout the garden next season.
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