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.
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.
Four raised beds behind the house: the crop map, the rotation logic, and why the tomatoes finally moved.
Plan post coming soonHerbs for the kitchen, flowers for the table — the bed that feeds both the cooking and the tablescapes.
Plan post coming soonWhat goes in as summer winds down: the sketch, the sowing dates, and the frost math. The first downloadable plan.
First up — in progressNo zone-splaining, no perfection. Just what holds up season after season behind this house.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nothing here is a first-season crush — these survive real use behind this house. Links go live as posts publish.
The hand-drawn bed sketch, sowing dates, and frost math — free, the moment it's ready. Garden guides land in your inbox before they land anywhere else.