The Garden

Plots, advice, and what actually grew

The kitchen garden behind a 100-year-old house — planned on paper, planted in real dirt, and shared honestly: the sketches, the sowing dates, and the failures too.

Fresh harvest of tomatoes and cucumbers in a colander
The Plots

The garden on paper first

Every season starts as a hand-drawn plan. These are the real bed layouts — what goes where, what rotates, what got evicted. Each one becomes a downloadable plan you can adapt to your own yard.

Galvanized raised garden bed with trellis arch and climbing cucumber vines — Wild Sage House kitchen garden

The Main Beds

The galvanized raised beds behind the house — cucumbers up the trellis arch, tomatoes, herbs, and whatever the season is calling for. The bed plan and rotation logic coming soon.

Plan post coming soon
Strawberry plants with handwritten plant label in the Wild Sage House herb and cutting bed

The Herb & Cutting Bed

Strawberries, herbs for the kitchen, and flowers for the table. The bed that exists purely for the cooking and the tablescapes — and occasionally, the label stakes.

Plan post coming soon
Garden to table — green beans from the garden cooking in cast iron on the outdoor grill with pork chops

The Fall Garden Plan

What to plant as summer winds down, when to plant it, and how to count backward from your frost date. The frost math, the two-bed layout, and why fall is the easiest season to grow food.

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Advice

Things the garden taught me the hard way

No zone-splaining, no perfection. Just what holds up season after season behind this house.

Plan the beds like a dinner table

Tall things at the back, favorites within reach, and nothing planted that you don't actually want to eat. A garden you'll walk past daily beats a bigger one you won't.

Sow by the frost date, not the mood

Count backward from your first fall frost and the whole season plans itself. It's the same trick as a party timeline — deadlines first, decisions second.

Buy fewer, better tools

One good hori hori outworks a shed of gadgets. The tools that survive years here are the ones I link — nothing gets recommended in its first season.

Grow one thing for the table

Something in every bed exists purely to be beautiful on a plate or in a jar — that's the garden-to-table thread that ties this whole house together.

In the Beds

The garden, honestly

Raised vegetable garden beds with tomatoes and trellis behind a 100-year-old house
The main beds behind the house.
Organic garden harvest — tomatoes and cucumbers fresh from the raised beds
What made it to the kitchen.
Close-up of organic tomato and pepper plants growing in a raised bed
Worth growing for the look alone.
Garden-to-table dinner — pan-seared fish with fresh tomato cucumber salad from the garden
From the bed to the table.
Cucumber vines climbing a garden trellis in a raised organic vegetable bed
Up the trellis and out of the way.
Shop the Garden

Tools that earn their spot

Nothing here is a first-season crush — these survive real use behind this house. Links go live as posts publish.

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Sources — The Short List

  • Hori hori garden knife Shop It
  • Raised bed soil blend (what actually fills the beds) Shop It
  • Seed starting trays that survive more than one spring Shop It
  • Frost cloth / row covers Shop It
  • Harvest basket (the one in every photo) Shop It
  • Garden journal supplies for the plan sketches Shop It

See the Full Garden Source List →

Transitioning to fall? The fall gardening 101 guide covers the frost date math, what to plant now, and how to set up your cool-season beds.

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