Harvest & Cook
The Best Meal Came Out of My Worst Year
The season everything failed produced one plate of food in September that I still think about. I have spent two years trying…
August 17, 2026Grown Saturday, eaten Sunday.
Homegrown Weekend
Written by Miles Okonkwo
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It Is Cheaper At The Store, And I Grow It Anyway
One winter I sat down and roughly added up what my vegetable garden costs against what it produces. The honest answer is that I am not saving money…
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Tiny Harvests, and Why I Still Bother
I counted a whole summer of balcony tomatoes and the number was small enough to be funny. Here is the honest accounting…
August 15, 2026Harvest & Cook
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The Week I Let Half the Harvest Rot
A bag of liquefied cucumbers in the back of the crisper drawer forced me to admit that my…
August 3, 2026
The Best Thing I Do With a Tomato Is Almost Nothing
I spent two seasons cooking my best vegetables into submission, making elaborate dishes to justify the effort of…
July 27, 2026
I Still Get the Picking Time Wrong
An eggplant I left on the plant nine days too long taught me that picking early and picking…
July 13, 2026Sowing
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I Sow Too Much Every Year
Seventy-four basil seedlings for a household of two. Why the packet always wins, why I cannot make myself…
August 14, 2026
Saving Seeds From Things I Actually Ate
One unreasonably good tomato in July got scraped into a jam jar. Three seasons later: the crops worth…
July 10, 2026
Buying Seedlings Is Not Cheating
I stood in a nursery parking lot feeling like a fraud with four tomato plants in a flat.…
May 15, 2026Vegetables
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Rotating Crops When You Only Have Four Beds
Textbook crop rotation assumes you have a field. I have four boxes and a path. Here is the…
July 31, 2026
The Year The Pests Won
One season I lost the squash overnight, the brassicas to caterpillars, and most of the seedlings to slugs.…
July 20, 2026
Yield Or Flavor, Because In A Small Garden You Pick One
The summer I chased volume, I filled the counter with produce nobody wanted to eat. Here is what…
May 25, 2026Herbs
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How Long a Supermarket Herb Pot Really Lasts
Those cheap pots of basil are not really plants, they are a bunch of herbs with roots attached.…
August 12, 2026
What To Do When You Have Far Too Much Basil
One good summer produces more herbs than any household can eat fresh. After composting an embarrassing amount of…
July 8, 2026
How I Cut Herbs So They Keep Coming Back
For two seasons I picked herbs the wrong way and wondered why my plants went bald and woody.…
June 10, 2026Small Spaces
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What a Renter Can Plant Without Losing the Deposit
I read my own lease properly before buying a single pot, which is not how most people start.…
July 1, 2026
Pots Dry Out Fast, and That Is the Whole Job
I came home from two nights away to a collapsed basil plant and finally accepted the thing nobody…
June 17, 2026
Sun Is the Real Limit on My Balcony, Not Space
I spent a Saturday watching where the light actually fell on my railing instead of guessing. What I…
May 5, 2026
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Miles Okonkwo
Homegrown Weekend is written by Miles Okonkwo. Everything here comes from actual use, written up honestly, including the things that did not work.
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- I Sow Too Much Every Year
- How Long a Supermarket Herb Pot Really Lasts
- The Week I Let Half the Harvest Rot
- Rotating Crops When You Only Have Four Beds
- The Best Thing I Do With a Tomato Is Almost Nothing
- The Year The Pests Won
- I Still Get the Picking Time Wrong
- Saving Seeds From Things I Actually Ate