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Climate Victory Garden – 2025

Six years into my Climate Victory Garden in Houston’s hot, humid Zone 9b, I’ve adapted to more intense heat and heavy downpours by choosing resilient crops like sweet potatoes, shifting tomatoes to fall and winter, and installing automated drip irrigation. Soil acidity, microclimates, and good drainage have proven essential, while lessons from failed garlic and thriving blueberries remind me that gardening here means constant learning and adjustment to the realities of a changing climate.

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Climate Victory Garden – Year 4!

Growing a vegetable garden is one of the best ways to be prepared for a changing climate. It’s also a nutritious and delicious hobby!
Follow along as I grow my garden and learn some new lessons about climate change and gardening.

Climate Victory Garden – Year 3!

Growing a vegetable garden is one of the best ways to be prepared for a changing climate. It’s also a nutritious and delicious hobby!
Follow along as I grow my garden and learn some new lessons about climate change and gardening.

Pandemic-Climate Victory Garden – Year 2!

Growing a vegetable garden is one of the best ways to be prepared for modern disasters of all kinds. Growing some of your own food could mean the difference between being well fed and not so well fed, enjoying some little luxuries, or being deprived. Follow along as I expand my garden and learn some new lessons.

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My Climate Disaster-Pandemic Victory Garden

Growing your own food gives you piece of mind and ties you into the rhythms of the seasons and the earth itself. It will allow you to bear witness to the accelerating climate changes going on all around us.

This post is meant to give you a little inspiration to grow your own. So please enjoy a tour through my pandemic – climate change victory garden!