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02/20/2026

Garlic + Roses: The Sulfur Shield That Stops Aphids Before They Start
Plant garlic around your roses this fall and you'll spray 75% less next summer.

- Garlic & Roses: Garlic roots release allicin into surrounding soil — aphids detect it and avoid the zone entirely
- Garlic & Fruit Trees: Planted at the drip line, garlic's sulfur compounds reduce apple scab fungal spores
- Garlic & Cabbage: Garlic masks brassica scent from cabbage moth — 60% fewer eggs laid on nearby plants
- Garlic & Beets: Garlic repels sugar beet leaf miners; beet greens shade garlic bulbs from summer sun
- Garlic & Lettuce: Garlic's scent deters rabbits and deer who browse lettuce beds
- Garlic & Tomatoes: Sulfur compounds from garlic roots reduce red spider mite populations by 50%
- Garlic & Peppers: Both prefer similar soil conditions; garlic repels aphids that vector pepper viruses
- Garlic & Strawberries: Garlic planted between rows repels strawberry crown borers
- Garlic & Raspberries: Garlic's antifungal properties suppress raspberry cane blight in adjacent soil

One bulb of garlic contains 8-12 cloves. Each clove becomes a guardian planted beside something you love.

02/20/2026

Talk about a powerful enzyme! See first comment.

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Happy Love Your Pet Day! Today, February 20th
Do you have a pet you love?

02/20/2026

Plants share soil nutrients and chemical signals when their roots grow together.

These 9 partnerships produce measurably better results than solo planting.

- Corn & Squash: Squash leaves shade corn's root zone, reducing soil temperature by 8°F and preserving moisture
- Beets & Lettuce: Lettuce provides living mulch while beet roots grow deep, mining calcium from subsoil layers
- Asparagus & Parsley: Parsley's root compounds repel asparagus beetles while asparagus provides early shade for parsley seedlings
- Grapes & Hyssop: Hyssop planted along grape rows increases berry yield by attracting pollinators during the brief flowering window
- Fruit Trees & Comfrey: Comfrey roots mine potassium from 6 feet deep and deposit it in leaf mulch at the tree's base
- Blueberries & Azaleas: Both require identical acidic soil (pH 4.5-5.5) and mycorrhizal fungal networks that they share
- Peas & Turnips: Pea root nodules release nitrogen that turnips absorb directly through adjacent root contact
- Sweet Potatoes & Oregano: Oregano's essential oils suppress soil-borne pathogens that cause sweet potato storage rot
- Rhubarb & Strawberries: Rhubarb's massive leaves shade strawberry roots in midsummer while both share similar moisture needs

Underground, every garden is a conversation.

02/20/2026

Affirm: 'Forgiveness is the healing tool I carry with me everywhere.' 🌞

02/20/2026

Before plastic bottles lined our shelves, there was a flower.

Soapwort looks unremarkable at first glance. Soft pink blossoms. Slender stems. Easy to overlook along a roadside.

But its leaves and roots contain saponins, natural compounds that foam in water. Crush them, and they release a gentle lather. Not harsh. Not synthetic. Just chemistry shaped by evolution.

For centuries, people used soapwort to wash delicate fabrics. Even today, some textile conservators prepare diluted soapwort solutions to clean fragile historic cloth and tapestries that cannot tolerate stronger detergents.

Long before factories and plastic jugs, cleaning power grew in meadows.

- Earth Unreal

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