Cabbage worms and other pests eat your garden because there is no diversity in plants.
But the BEST gardens include:
2 kinds of 🌸 Flowers
2 kinds of 🌿 Herbs
2 kinds of 🪴 Texture plants like succulents
Why?
Because flowers attract pollinators.
Herbs protect your garden (and they taste so so good!!)
Texture plants make your space feel beautiful even when veggies are struggling.
That’s how you build a garden that actually feels EASY.
I made this deadly mistake too , until I figured it out!! I was shocked to learn that flowers, herbs, and texture plants actually bring in good bugs that eat up the bad pests like cabbage worms that eat your garden!!
Comment "APP" to get my beginner gardening app with 100+ plants and simple care guides designed for people who thought they could never garden 🌱
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As a professor, author, and hands-on grower, Dr. Pattin makes gardening simple, abundant, and empowering.
👩🏽🌾 Professor, author & gardener
👩🏽🌾 Over 70+ gardens built
🏆 Voted Most Beautiful Toledo Garden
📱Creator of The Harvest Doctor Mobile App
Because we all know figuring out what to eat for Sunday dinner is just too much.
Learning gardening on your phone is easy because you have all of the information right in your pocket!
No doomscrolling
No loose papers
No notes you'll loose later
Everything you need to grow a sucessful garden, so you don't have to stress yourself out worrying about what to eat for Sunday dinner after church.
Comment "APP" in the comment section to get it!!!
Water Your Plants Today!
I cut off my basil flowers so flowers because all the energy can be spent on producing beautiful leaves. When you keep the flowers on, the basil plant is less potent.
This is the opposite of mint. When mint flowers, that means the plant is potent!
If this information was helpful, save this reel and comment "APP" to get straightforward information on how to start your garden from scratch.
Go to the comment section to get my FREE animal garden guide.
I typically plant 2 different kinds of flowers, herbs and succulents to attract good animals and confuse the others.
After all, it is their world! We might as well work with them while they help us grow food through pollination and they eat the pests that kill food.
This guide will show you what plants and where to put them in your garden in order to attract good animals and to confuse the animals that will kill your garden.
Follow along and start your garden from scratch inaide the mobile app: Garden set up/Plants
05/25/2026
Gardening For Everybody!!!
🌱 Introducing AgriBility! 🌱
At Urban Wholistics we believe every child belongs and every child deserves the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive.
This year, with the support of the Lucas County Board of Developmental Disabilities and our incredible community partners, we are creating a more accessible farm experience for youth with limited abilities through AgriBility, a new youth farmers program by SONIA Organics
♿ ADA-accessible gardening opportunities
🌻 Nature exploration & pollinator education
🦋 Monarch Waystation learning experiences
🍅 Farm-to-table wellness activities
🌿 Hands-on product making, culinary & life skills
🤝 Friendship, confidence, and community
We’re working hard to add an accessible ramp, curb cuts, and pathways so more youth can experience the joy of farming, nature, and wellness in a welcoming environment.
A heartfelt thank you to Lucas County Board of Developmental Disabilities, CAIRE, LLC, Lathrop, City of Toledo, ServeOhio, and Metroparks Toledo for helping make this vision possible.
Together, we’re growing abilities, cultivating futures, and creating a farm where youth of all abilities can learn, grow, explore, and thrive. 💚
Register for summer 👇🏽
https://www.urbanwholistics.org/challenge-page/343d182e-9c95-4809-811c-f8c27c6e6916
🌱🦋♿
05/24/2026
🌿💚 GARDEN CLASS 💚🌿
This year, I’ll be offering my very first hands-on workshop right here at my Toledo garden! 🌿
Join me for the first in person workshop of the as we dive into the basics of growing more of your own food — including a sit down soul food meal with dessert.
We’ll cover practical ways to grow food in your yard, garden, or even on a patio, with real-life examples from my yard turned into a kitchen garden 🌈🌿
The $25 cost includes:
🌱 Gardening basics
🌱 Your own take home garden
🌱 Garden tour
🌱 Sit down soul food meal
📍 Toledo, Ohio
📅 Saturday, June 13th
⏰ 12:00–2:00 PM
Click the link in my bio to get tickets!!!
Come spend the afternoon with me, learn hands-on gardening skills, and leave inspired to grow your own kitchen garden with the foods you love! 🌿
Lettuce is the perfect fast food! Follow along inside the mobile app: Plants
05/22/2026
I get lettuce everyday, the real fast food! Let me tell you all about it!
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