Where seeds split—life begins in the soil’s first crack.
It started with one sunflower that kept dying It was 2017, late June, and I’d just planted my first sunflower seeds in a raised bed behind my apartment.
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I’ve always had a green thumb—whether it was sneaking seeds from my grandpa’s garden as a kid or wrestling with black thumb moments as an adult.
This site is where I share the lessons I’ve learned, the plants that thrive in my zone, and the little tricks that make gardening feel less like work and more like a conversation with the earth. Think of it as my way of paying forward the joy of watching something grow.
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