Happy May, Garden Friends! After an incredibly long dry spell, we finally have rain! Mother Nature always keeps us on our toes, but she's been awfully stingy on the rain side of things. The plants are

Hello old friends! Or maybe new friends. It's been a minute since I've logged in to see how things are buzzing in the Hive community. While life continues to be busy, I'm always grateful to the garden

Forget Christmas in July, we got Halloween in June. While we had some ups and downs as always this last month, I have to start the latest garden update with our recent big win--we grew our biggest pumpkin

Forget April showers...May brought the deluge around here! I believe we had almost three times the usual amount of precipitation for the month. Despite the soggy conditions, the garden is doing pretty

Hello again gardening friends! May began with an amazing trip to Vancouver, Canada, but I'm back in time to check in for the May Garden Journal fun. Speaking of gardens, after missing the opportunity when

Where had the time gone? Once again, I'm grateful for gardening season to pull me back to Hive to be able to share and see what everyone else has growing! Life continues to be busy here in the real world,

June turned out to be DRY and HOT here in Atlanta. The hot we're used to, the dry, however, did a number on the garden. Despite trying to keep everything watered as much as possible, it just doesn't compare

Greetings my fellow plant enthusiasts! I hope you all are starting to celebrate some successes in your gardens, as we are looking forward to more good things coming our way here in Atlanta. Summer is just

Hello all! I hope everyone is having a good start to the month of May. Things are starting to get warm and toasty here, which means the garden is finally taking off in a hurry! It never ceases to amaze

While I can't say we have harsh, nor long, winters, springtime still is very welcome around here! I have yet to have any success growing anything into the winter, so spring usually marks the start of really

Hello friends! Once again I'm emerging from winter blogging hiatus just in time for the spring planting season to begin. It seems like that stretch of time between November and March has become a bit of

Happy Holidays! This year has been quite the busy one, but I couldn't let the holiday season pass by without sharing one of my favorite workouts of the year: Planksgiving! This year I'm bringing it back

September already? How did that happen? This time around, I'm actually quite happy for another month behind me! I'm now five weeks out from hysterectomy surgery, so I'm much closer to my normal active

Hello gardening friends! I'm a bit late in sharing my garden journal for the month, but I had to prioritize a little hysterectomy recovery over getting on the computer. Luckily after just over a week filled

Happy July garden lovers! We just got back from an awesome weekend away, so it was fun to get back to the garden to see how things were looking in our absence. It's amazing how much things can change in

As is often the case here in the Southern USA, June marks the start of summer. Even if it's not officially summer by the calendar, the switch has been flipped and it seems like overnight we went from pleasant

How has another month passed already? Time flies when you're ridiculously busy. However, @dksart and I did finally take some time this week to get away for a bit. It had been way too long since I had a

Hello my friends! This may be my longest absence from blogging, but it truly has been the busiest season of life in a long time. Lots good, plenty stressful, but I'm happy to carve out a wee bit of time

The holidays are upon us yet again! And by holidays I actually mean the best one of them all--Planksgiving! Ever since I started my Plants to Planks blog, I've been doing this festive workout to kick off

I seem to be on a roll this month, as I'm back with another bowl that was too good not to share. There are many variations on miso soup out there, but it's such a nourishing meal that you can never have