Solid Ground Gardens

06/02/2026

Q***r and Trans people have always existed and will exist until humanity’s last day.

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

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05/29/2026

I know many of you have already heard, but it’s going to be a bit chilly the next couple nights 🥶

Cold nights in the low 40s, upper 30s this late in the spring is uncommon, but not unheard of. But there are many ways to keep your plants protected from the chill! I highly recommend folks cover their warmer weather plants if they’ve already planted them, especially basil and cucurbits (think cucumbers, squash, and melons) which get cranky when temps go below 50. Tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant would also benefit from a bit of protection though, and anything else adapted to tropical climates.

I do have floating row cover and hoops available at the stand, but throwing a sheet over your plants work too so long as you have something to prop it up off the leaves! You can also flip pots over on top of your plants to keep the cold at bay. The forecast also calls for high winds however, so whatever you decide, make sure it doesn’t blow away or end up rubbing against the plant.

If you haven’t planted your cold sensitive plants yet, you can just bring them inside for the cold weather. And if you were planning on stopping by the nursery today or tomorrow I would still love to see you! You’ll be able to take just as good of care for the plants—if not better—as I would over the weekend, and I’m running low on certain varieties 💕

05/14/2026

It’s that time of year!!

All the warm weather vegetables and flowers are FINALLY getting ready to make their appearance. I know folks have been excited for these and I’m definitely excited to be getting them to you.

Release dates are as follows:

Tomatoes, peppers, eggplants - May 20th
Cucumbers, squash, basil - May 27th
Ginger, zinnias, dahlias -June 3rd

Many of the annual flowers will also start coming out as they’re ready to go in the ground, with many starting to make an appearance this weekend.

Happy Growing 😊

05/10/2026

Super grateful for this woman, my mom, who is one of my biggest supporter and the heart of Solid Ground. She’s the one who gave me my love of plants, and from the nursery’s beginnings she’s helped me with everything from filling pots with soil to transplanting seedlings to building tables, and I think she somehow manages to like being at the nursery more than I do which is really saying something. Every time I put a tray in front of her to pot up she goes “oooooh that’s my favorite plant!” (Spoiler alert, they’re all her favorite 😆)

Thank you to all the moms, mother-figures, and non-binary parental rock stars who take care of us and encourage us to thrive. You deserve to be celebrated every day, and we love you ❤️

1. My mom potting up annuals this morning. She insisted that this was what she wanted to do for Mother’s Day.

2. My sister, mom, and I raising the greenhouse back in 2023.

3. Taking a break from seeding and transplanting, featuring my dog Mabel.

4&5. My Aunt Cathy (another great mom!) and mom goofing around last summer.

6&7. My mom forgot her hat, so she improvised!

05/05/2026

Stacey, Mabel, and I took a little time this morning to plant the beginnings of a ramp patch!

Allium tricoccum, also known as ramps or wild leeks, are a variety of wild onion native to Eastern North America. They have a long history throughout this part of the continent, intertwined with numerous indigenous communities who have long called its native range home and use them for both food and medicine. They also have become an important cultural crop for folks with ties to the Appalachians.

As I’m sure many of you have noticed, ramps have become pretty popular over the past decade. They’re an early spring allium with a very short window for harvest and a flavor unlike any onion that we can buy grown commercially. They’ve long been plentiful, but because of the ramp craze coupled with the fact that they take up to 7 years to mature from seed and once you pull the roots out the plant will not grow back, over harvesting and poor management of ramp patches has become a problem.

There are ethical ways to harvest ramps however! Cutting the bulb just above the roots, never harvesting more than you need, and even growing your own is a great way to keep wild ramps populations strong. By planting this little patch now, we’re hoping to someday be able to offer them for sale at ’s farm stand for eating and Solid Ground Gardens for planting. It’s definitely a fun experiment!

Huge props to Stacey for sourcing the majority of our ramp starts, and a big thanks to my mom for giving us the final push we needed to actually get this project started 😆

04/27/2026

Did you know that this Friday there’s going to be a statewide May Day Strike in support of immigrants and workers? Solid Ground Gardens will be CLOSED Friday, 5/1! For the full list of strike demands, please check out ’s page.

I am the daughter of an immigrant. I have family and friends who have tried to gain residency or citizenship the “right way” and have watched them go through literally years of anxiety, fear, financial burden, and emotional exhaustion. Not all of their attempts were successful. Last December I witnessed labor trafficking survivor Juan David, an immigrant legally here with no criminal record and a pending T Visa, being taken away in shackles by masked ICE agents during a routine check-in, leaving his wife and 7 year old daughter behind.

I believe in a world where we all lift each other up, and protect the most vulnerable. The cruelty millions of people across the US are experiencing right now at the hands of this administration (but also from previous ones) is unfathomable. Immigrants work so hard to be here and this whole country profits from their labor, the dollars they spend in our local economies, the jobs they create when they start businesses of their own, and the taxes they pay. But we need to care not just because of what they do for us, but because they are people who have dreams and loved ones and full human lives. This is just a tiny way we can show up.

I will be at the Boston Commons this Friday at 2:30 for the LUCE Rally, and 4:30 for the Statewide May Day Rally. I hope to see you there. And if you absolutely need to buy something, please try to pay in cash, and support small businesses!

Thank you for reading,

Elizabeth

The “Migration is Beautiful” flag on the last slide was designed and screen printed by artist ❤️

04/23/2026

Today I wanted to do a little tribute to the humble viola, one of my favorite flowers I grow at the nursery. These jewels are so exciting to see blooming in the spring.

A lot of people use the names “pansy” and “viola” interchangeably, which is understandable. They both belong to the viola genus, along with the violets we start seeing pop up in fields around this time. Pansies are bigger and because of this they’re considered showier, but violas bloom for longer, and more profusely, and tend to be a bit hardier to the cold. They also reseed easier, giving them their other common name, “johnny jump-ups.”

I’ve also long been interested in the q***r history surrounding the viola genus as someone who is also q***r. Violets for example are one of the oldest symbols of q***rness, representing le***an love and dating back over two and a half thousand years. Pansies were often used as a derogatory term for gay men in the 20th century, but its name was also borrowed in the 1920s and 30s for the “Pansy Craze”, a brief golden age for drag clubs and gay bars in the US, and the name has started being reclaimed by the community in recent years.

Violas for me hang somewhere in the middle: too small to be a pansy and maybe not wild-looking enough to be a violet. But always there and just as beautiful. If I were to pick a flower to represent my own personal q***rness it would be a viola, although I have much reverence for the history and symbolism of pansies and violets as well.

All the violas at the nursery are starting to bloom! I love the colors dearly. The Black Delights are always fun since true black flowers are so rare, and the tigers-eye red are so unique looking. I could say something about each individual bloom opening up because they’re all a little different, but we’d be here all day 😆

04/17/2026

Mabel has the right idea, and she doesn’t need to be told twice!

Some varieties are going fast, so if you’re eying something in particular, now is the time! All my seedlings have been hardened off and are available only when it’s a good time to plant them outside, so if you see them at the nursery, they can go in the ground 🌱❤️

Even better: right next door will be open tomorrow (Saturday, April 18th) from 10-4 with some fabulous local produce and provisions. It’s their last Saturday open until they open up full time in May so make sure you check them out too!

04/16/2026

Love when Katie visits! She's the best 💕

My dear friends at Solid Ground Gardens are open for the year today!! Happy Opening Day Elizabeth!! And guess what she has???? Native trumpet honeysuckle!!! Also rolled out lots of veggies and herbs and annuals too!! She's also the place to get those fabulous Mexican sunflowers later in the spring ;) Love this little nursery down the street from mine 🥰

10/18/2025

Come snag some seed garlic from me at ’s CSA pickup! I’m here through the pickup (which is from now until 1pm) OR until I run out.