Starting My Garden the Smart Way (And Why I Scaled Back This Year)
Come Walk My Backyard With Me 🌱
Hey everybody, Kelly here.
I wanted to show you the start of my gardening journey this season. Nothing polished. Just real life in my backyard.
These are all the beds I’m working with this year.
I’ve already planted potatoes, along with cold-hardy plants like lettuce and carrots. That was intentional. If we get another frost, those can handle it. I’m not setting the whole garden up around perfect weather.
Everything else, I started using soil blocks.
I don’t use traditional seed trays. I compress soil into blocks, and each block holds a seedling. No plastic cells. No tangled roots. And when it’s time to move them outside, they transition a lot better.
Once I’ve got them set up, I bring the trays inside and place them on shelves with grow lights and warming mats underneath. That gives them the right conditions to get started before going outside.
Normally, I’d have four full shelves of seedlings going right now.
This year, I have one.
Colorado water restrictions are coming, so I made the decision early to scale back and build around what I can actually sustain.
Not what looks good.
Not what feels productive for five minutes.
What I can actually maintain.
And honestly, this is part of my author journey too.
Because writing, publishing, and building anything takes energy. If you don’t have something that grounds you, you’ll drain yourself trying to stay in motion all the time.
This right here is part of how I reset.
Watch the full Garden Journey video here:
If you’re building something too, whether it’s a book, a business, or a life you actually want, make sure you’re building it around what you can sustain.
You can also explore more of my work here:
https://brightheadedpublishing.com
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