Leah's Leaves

02/14/2026

Free and inexpensive ways to start growing food.

https://youtu.be/W-ppsrFY1YQ?si=KUB3vEfVrl_jjdKc

01/28/2026

Cold stratification for perennial seeds using the fridge method, by Luke Marion at MIgardener.

https://youtu.be/SfbfqcHQ5nY?si=3sOl-fxjlhXGsFHf

01/23/2026

When starts, I'm gonna jump on my seed-starting. While you're stocking up on toilet paper and tuna pouches, check back here for my vlog on first-round early winter plantings Monday morning.

01/23/2026

Excellent Fertilizer Tutorial from Jacques Lyakov

Fertilizer has a purpose which is to boost the fertility of your plants by directly supply the nutrients they need. But! Is fertilizer really worth using? A...

01/20/2026

Brian over at Next Level Gardening gives an excellent troubleshooting tutorial for correcting common seed starting problems before they start. https://youtu.be/EANCiAAZSCE?si=0SykcZ55aFipJmFf

09/01/2025

Thank You, Lord!

Time for some spicy mushroom marinara. 🍄 🍅🧄🧅🌶🫑🧂

08/27/2025

Have started a new page on Ko-Fi dedicated to budgeting, money talk, faith, ADHD, and minimalism. They're all connected. Posted a garden-themed savings challenge, free to download, inspired by here and on YouTube. Pop over to Ko-Fi and download to start a new savings challenge!

FREE Garden Seeds Savings Challenge inspired by my YouTube channel . I grow all these veggies and herbs. Do you?

05/12/2025

Sweaty and beat, but just filled a 6'x1.5' raised bed with mulch and soil, mulched containers and beds with grass clippings, emptied and refilled two rectangular planters and sowed zinnias, Bells of Ireland, and Gomphrena (aka Globe Amaranth), and gave everything a good watering.

So much to do, so little stamina. Have to just do what I can when I can between work and rainy days.

05/03/2025

The beginnings of the MOONGARDEN!

This is a dream of mine for a few years. The idea came from Botanical Interests. In my white clawfoot tub and surrounding containers are:

Korean Spice Viburnum, Sweet Alyssum, Indian Peace Pipe Nicotiana, Moonflower, Polar Bear Zinnia, Silverdust Dusty Miller, Calibrachoa, and Baby Double High Stock. You can see some were started ahead of time, and the rest were direct sown today - explains the blank spaces.

Designed by height and growth habit, some will flow (out), some will show (boldly), and some will grow (tall).

I'm setting a phone reminder for the next 3 months to show you its progress.

02/11/2025

Today's the day! Hot peppers are sown. 40-cell tray, 36 varieties of hot peppers plus two varieties of eggplant. Heat mat on, grow lights tested and working.