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Continue reading →: Gardening in Yuma, AZ: When Kitchen Curiosity Meets Desert RealityWhen I first started gardening, it wasn’t part of some grand plan. It was a kitchen experiment. I was making dinner one night, pulling seeds out of a bell pepper, and had a very casual thought: Could I grow more bell peppers from this? That curiosity snowballed (as these things…
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Continue reading →: A New Season, a New Plan (and a Kitchen Full of Seed Trays)Last season taught me a lot. I learned what worked, what didn’t, and how quickly confidence can grow after just a few small wins. Coming off that first year, I feel different heading into this one. Less impulsive. A little more organized. Still excited—but with a plan. This year, I…
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Continue reading →: The Day My Tango Mandarin Turned Yellow (and What I Did to Save It)We purchased our home a little over two years ago, and from the beginning, I knew the backyard had potential. There’s a mature orange tree back there that was clearly thriving long before we ever arrived, but surrounding it were five large shrubs. They looked nice enough, but they felt…
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Continue reading →: What I Learned My First Season Growing ThingsAfter the peppers and the potatoes, I was hooked. Coming off the success of the bell peppers, I felt bold. Like I could grow anything. So I did what any reasonable person would do: I built two more garden beds and started planting… everything. Corn. Beans. Strawberries. Herbs. Jalapeños. Tomatoes.…
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Continue reading →: Second Breakfast: My First Attempt at Growing PotatoesWhen my bell peppers sprouted, something in my brain changed. I went from “let’s see if this works” to “I am clearly a person who can grow things now.” After watching 72 tiny pepper plants come to life, I felt unstoppable. Like maybe I could grow anything. And once that…
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Continue reading →: From One Bell Pepper to a GardenIt started in the most unremarkable way possible. I was making dinner one night, slicing up a bell pepper, and doing that normal thing where you pull out the seeds and toss them in the trash. Except this time, I paused. And thought:Wait… could I grow more bell peppers from…
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