I Think This Is Becoming a Business
How writing about my garden turned into paid subscribers, brand partnerships, UGC, freelance writing and a business I never actually planned to start
Growing With Beccalynne
Where soil health, soft blooms, low-effort gardening come together to help you grow a peaceful and abundant garden.
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What Is a Growing Zone? A Simple Guide to Plant Hardiness Zones
Growing zones don’t tell you everything you can grow. Here’s how plant hardiness zones actually work, why they matter most for perennials, and how they differ from your growing season.
How to Use Garden Waste to Build Better Soil: Direct Composting, Green Manure & Chop-and-Drop
Peak summer is overflowing with leaves, stems, finished crops and garden scraps. Here’s how I keep that organic matter in the garden, feed the soil and turn today’s harvest leftovers into next year’s
What Is a Sunchoke? Meet the Perennial Sunflower You Can Eat
Also called Jerusalem artichoke and topinambour, this towering perennial produces an underground harvest year after year.
3 Plants I Won’t Grow Again + What I’m Scaling Back in My Garden
After another season of actually paying attention to what we eat, what takes up space, and what earns its keep, I’m making a few changes.
How to Grow Fruit Trees in Pots: A Complete Container Growing Guide
Learn how to choose the right tree, pot, soil and winter protection for growing peaches, apples, figs and other fruit trees in containers.
I Thought About Replacing Sweet Alyssum. Here's Why It's Staying in My Garden
A viral claim made me question one of my favourite flowers. Here's what I discovered about sweet alyssum, companion planting, invasiveness, and why context matters more than blanket advice.
How I’m Designing Raised Beds for a Sunchoke Crop
Inside my plan for growing Jerusalem artichokes in dedicated cedar beds, from containment and spacing to watering, harvesting and keeping varieties organised.
Why I Chose Sunchokes as a Crop to Sell
The first instalment in my paid series about turning one unusual perennial crop into a small garden-income adventure
Runner Beans: How to Grow, Harvest and Eat Them at Every Stage
Runner beans are more than a beautiful flowering vine. Here’s how they grow, why they’re perennial in warmer climates and how to use the pods, fresh beans, dried beans and even the flowers for food.
How to Grow Enough Food to Last Beyond Summer
A practical guide to planning bigger harvests, choosing the right crops, preserving what you grow, and slowly building a garden that feeds your household for months.