This week is another short one due to travels. I serve as an investment coach once a month or so, usually in Atlanta, so away from the garden for a few. The them for us this week is back to basics.

If you didn’t see our previous newsletter after much crop lost, here’s what we discovered:

"3 Most Important Ingredients for a Healthy Garden

• Good soil
  
• Ample sunlight
  
• Adequate water
  

Inadequate growing conditions will weaken your plants and make them more susceptible to pests and blight."
~Gardens All

We’ve heard from many of you with various garden challenges and struggles since publishing about ours. Many have been afflicted by either drought or too much rain. For drought, drip irrigation really helps. For too much rain, straw bale gardening helps. Here are some additional ideas.

That’s our report, folks. Our biggest lesson is not to ask so much of our plants when we know better where to plant them.

How about your week?  We know gardeners love to share photos of your crop, craft and harvests, so if you’d like us to publish your photos, comments and/or articles, we’d be delighted to hear from you. We enjoy sharing tips from the community and especially what’s happening in your neck of the garden. 

As always…

“May your gardens flourish and your harvests be bountiful, and when you look upon your little Eden, may you see that it is good.”
~Coleman Alderson, GardensAll 

Grow Great Gardens!