Garden Update | April 2020

April has to be one of the most dynamic for the garden - at least, it’s definitely one of the busiest!

My GardenTessa PinnerMay 2, 2020Gardening, Southern Gardening, English GardenComment

3 Things You Need to Know to Start a Kitchen Garden

I remember the intimidation I felt before planting my first vegetables (just!) two years ago, but the only way to get over that initial reticence is just to dive in and try things.

On Gardening and Grief

I became an accidental gardener through grief. I remember like it was yesterday: this same time of year, 5 years ago, approaching Mothers’ Day.

Porch TalksTessa PinnerApril 23, 2020Gardening, Wholehearted Comment

5 Things To Do In Your Yard/Garden During Quarantine

Someday, this post is really going to date this time: spring 2020, the strangest one a lot of us have lived through.

My GardenTessa PinnerApril 8, 2020Gardening, Horticulture, Southern Gardening, How To, Projects Comment

Garden Update | March 2020

The garden is a laboratory, a learning process, a living thing. Since March just ended, I’ll summarize a few things that happened last month.

My GardenTessa PinnerApril 2, 2020Gardening, Southern Gardening, English GardenComment

8 Months of Garden Blooms

Because the interplay of what’s blooming when is so specific to place and even to season, I wanted a way to see at a glance what was happening.

My GardenTessa PinnerMarch 31, 2020Horticulture, Gardening, Southern GardeningComment

Education of a [Young] Gardener

This is a personal essay I wrote for TOWN Carolina’s March 2020 issue about the time I spent at Great Dixter House & Gardens last summer.

Porch TalksTessa PinnerMarch 31, 2020Gardening, Horticulture, English GardenComment