The garden’s always shifting, growing, and teaching me patience. This week I made some big additions to our little homestead system, and I’m feeling both excited and grounded about what’s coming.
First up, I brought home a large blueberry plant—because honestly, can you ever have too many blueberries? They’re one of those fruits that just feel like a reward straight from nature. Alongside that, I added two big jasmine bushes. While jasmine isn’t exactly food, it’s still part of my system—pollinator-friendly, fragrant, and a reminder that beauty belongs right next to practicality.
On the sprouting front, I’ve got baby beet greens and Daikon radish sprouts pushing through the soil. Nothing beats the satisfaction of seeing fresh green life break through after a little time and care. These are quick growers, so they’ll be hitting the kitchen before long.
But the real test of patience? The seeds I tucked away for cold stratification this winter. They’re sleeping in the soil, waiting for the frost to do its work so they can wake up come spring. It feels like planting hope and trusting the earth to hold the promise until it’s time.
Here’s the lineup of what I’ve got chilling out till warmer days:
- Red Custard Apples
- Rainbow Pears
- Black Pears
- Pomelos
- Lychees
- Green Tea
- Soursop
- Moringa Trees
- Purple Olive Trees
- Sausage Vine
- White Lilac Bushes
- Black Currants
- Red Currants
- Gold Currants
- (and probably a few others I forgot to jot down when I was elbow-deep in soil!)
Some of these are long-haul crops, the kind of thing that’ll take years before they bless me with fruit. But that’s homesteading—it’s a mix of quick wins and slow, soul-deep investments. You put in the work now, and down the road you’ve got food, medicine, and beauty right outside your door.
So that’s where we’re at today: blueberries, jasmine, sprouts, and a whole lineup of future food trees and bushes waiting to make their debut. This space keeps reminding me that growth doesn’t happen all at once—it happens in layers, in seasons, and in trust.