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11/01/2026
One of the biggest surprises for new gardeners?
Salad greens don’t wait for summer.
Most leafy greens actually prefer cooler temperatures, which means they’re one of the first things I plan for each season. Long before tomatoes, long before peppers, long before the garden feels “awake.”
What I love about greens is how quickly they build confidence. The seeds are inexpensive, they’re easy to grow, and they show progress fast. You plant them, and within weeks, something is actually happening. Beds start filling in, harvests come early, and you see the payoff right away.
This is why planning matters. When you understand the rhythm of the garden, it starts giving back sooner than you expect.
If you’re thinking ahead this season, greens are always a good place to start.
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02/12/2025
A garden’s architecture is just as important as its plants.
Every property has its own personality and every family has its own rhythm. I love designing gardens that reflect both, not with something you can buy off a shelf but with something that simply could not exist anywhere else.
For this property, the answer was a custom 12 foot tunnel arch. It is bold. It is sculptural. And you just do not see structures like this on residential properties very often, which is exactly why it is such a showstopper.
Historically, gardens have always been a place to express taste, creativity, and vision. A chance to say: this is ours and nothing else looks like it.
If you have been imagining a garden that feels less like a project and more like your own private legacy piece, we should talk about what is possible on your property.
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24/11/2025
Did you know we can grow hardy kiwi berries here in the northern climates?
And not just a handful. Once mature, a single vine can produce sixty to one hundred pounds of fruit. It still surprises people, but these vines might be one of the most underrated edible perennials you can grow.
A few things I love about them: • You eat them whole since the skin is smooth and completely edible. • They are tiny nutrient powerhouses with more vitamin C than oranges, more vitamin E than avocados, and more potassium than bananas for their size. • They are rich in antioxidants and make the easiest little super snack. • The vines can live over fifty years and produce for more than thirty. • You might also hear them called hardy kiwi or arctic kiwi.
And since four vines can add up to a serious amount of fruit, I designed a trellis that will support them for the long term and still look beautiful in the garden. When we went to pick it up, Matt said my full name, Katie Marie, which is his way of saying, here we go again. A little ambition in the garden never hurts.
Edible landscaping is full of fun surprises like this, especially when you start to think beyond the usual crops.
Who else is growing hardy kiwi or has been curious to try them?
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Katie Oglesby is a Certified Health Coach, who received her training through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She encourages her clients to take a deeper look at their health and daily habits to regain control and live a healthier, more sustainable life. She inspires women to stop being passive participants in their health journey and become courageous, informed advocates of their wellbeing. In a past life, she was a private investigator — and her intuitive skills are stronger than ever to help you investigate your *own* health.
Katie is a Gardenary-trained Garden Coach and Real Food Advocate which has given her the experience to truly understand the power of growing even a fraction of your own food. She is available to coach her clients on how to integrate Kitchen Gardens into their homes as part of your wellness journey.
The story behind the “Dirty Wellness Solution”
My health and well-being was at a pivotal point. The education started and after a night of binge-watching documentaries on Food Matters TV about farming and our food system. I sat there and it really hit me, your actual garden is healthy but “Katie, your soil is depleted”. . . Literally.
It was time to get my hands dirty and really dig into what I needed to do to get myself back on track. So the journey began and it began with food in my garden. I got my hands dirty to learn about the benefits of the food I was growing and its supportive role in my healing journey. After exhaustive research on how to design my garden to better support my health. I became more intuitive with what I was planting and how I brought it into my kitchen.
As I took the time to plant the seeds and nurture those tiny seedlings, I gained more clarity. The dirtier my hands got, the more firmly I could ground myself in the healing process. I started to “sow the seeds” for establishing new habits and frame life through a more sustainable lens.
