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Now that I have your attention: I’m finally getting sprouts on some sunchoke seeds I started very late. They just came up yesterday. What’s the chance if I plant them in the ground they’ll produce any sort of tuber before they die off this winter? First frost is the first or second week of October

My daughter and I have started a small garden. Corn, cabbage, tomatoes, and cucumbers. The ones in the bottom right corner of the plot are morning glory flowers. She told me to plant flowers because bees/wasps pollinate and will help the others grow. She’s 7 lol.

What I need help with is maintaining it. I know they’re short on space. So can I move them at this stage of growth? The tomatoes aren’t growing that well. Only two of the plots actually germinated and grew out of naybe 30 seeds.

The corn and cucumbers are obviously doing the best, yellow flowers are starting to grow on the cucumbers, but they’re all males as far as I can tell. There’s some weird white lines on some of them as well. They seem to still grow, but it only worsens over time so I’ve started trimming them off.

The last photo are two pots with various pepper seeds. They are attempts 3 and 4 and I’ve yet to see one germinate successfully. Which is odd given I live in Louisiana. I should be in the perfect climate so I’m going something vastly wrong. I just don’t know what.

I think they’re starting to slowly die. The rain has been very erratic lately. Some plants are burning I think because it’ll rain very hard for maybe 15 minutes. Then it’s burning hot direct sun rays the rest of the day.

How do I fix my garden? Save it and help it grow?

Accessible Vocational Therapeutic Horticulture Options

My or our 1st raised bed as I am trying to vocate into therapeutic horticulture with different projects of different sizes.

I am implementing pacing energy accounting into the goals.

Right now this is mostly a hobby yet very strong interest and desire to turn this into a vocational tract for neurodiversity and biodiversity through regenerative and organic living practices.

This is not my land. I live on the family homestead. I observe and respond naturally to the wildlife and energy conservation and natural preserve. I practice state of presentness with its happening now as a neurodivergent person recovering from burnout.

Grief and mourning go into this innovative demonstrative garden. I have organic seeds. Right now I am working on the soil structure, carbon sequestration with vermicomposting and sunflower to improve the soil health while starting small or building momentum in to my day to days or week to weeks, etc.

Does anyone do connective activities around even the slightest out of the box topic cognitive gardening such as collage making (say funding or mobility is limited), or physical gardening tasks?

I use LEGO and Canva as tools when other resources are not presently available as this helps me with various homesteading skills.

Is there an interest in a support or accessible garden group around these topics?

Or can someone help me design courses or develop steam workshops around earthing, grounding and mindfulness?