A bilingual magazine for growing herbs, small gardens, and calmer evenings

Healing Home & Garden follows what actually happens on balconies, patios, and kitchen windowsills: aromatic plants with traditional uses, compost that slowly turns, and garden corners built for rest rather than show.

Each edition brings seasonal growing profiles, sowing calendars written for temperate and subtropical climates, pruning notes, substrate and drip irrigation advice, and natural pest control with garlic, potassium soap, and neem oil. You will also find rest-focused gardens in care homes and schools, conversations with local plant nurseries, and infusion recipes using chamomile, mint, and lavender. A Spanish-language version is available for Spanish-speaking readers, and our agronomists and landscape designers answer reader questions about clay soils, drainage in containers, and light indoors.

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Soil, containers, and the small daily tasks that keep a home garden going through the season.

What each edition puts in your hands

Healing Home & Garden is built around the work you actually do: reading a patch of clay before you dig, deciding whether a balcony gets enough light for mint, or figuring out why a container never drains. Every issue gathers seasonal growing profiles, sowing calendars written for temperate and subtropical climates, pruning notes, substrate and drip irrigation advice, and natural pest control with garlic, potassium soap, and neem oil. Nothing here assumes a large plot or a greenhouse.

Alongside the practical material, regular sections cover rest-focused gardens in care homes and schools, conversations with local plant nurseries, and infusion recipes with chamomile, mint, and lavender. A Spanish-language version is available for Spanish-speaking readers. Our agronomists and landscape designers answer reader questions about clay soils, drainage in pots, and indoor light.

Curious how we choose topics and work with contributors? Read more on our editorial approach or browse how readers use the magazine.

Seasonal growing profiles

Aromatic and traditionally used plants described by season, with the conditions they tolerate and the ones they don't.
Sowing calendars by climate

Monthly tasks adapted to temperate and subtropical gardens, including balcony and patio microclimates.
Substrates, drainage, and drip irrigation

How to mix what goes in a pot, keep roots from sitting in water, and set up simple drip lines for containers.
Natural pest control

Garlic, potassium soap, and neem oil explained one by one, with the timing and the limits of each preparation.
Rest-focused gardens and nurseries

Reports from gardens in care homes and schools, plus interviews with the people who run local plant nurseries.
Infusions and restful design

Recipes with chamomile, mint, and lavender, and garden layouts planned around quiet rather than display.

What you can send us

The magazine only works if it answers questions people actually have in their gardens. If a crop failed on a north-facing balcony, if water pools in a pot after rain, or if a clay bed cracks every summer, that is worth writing down. Reader notes often turn into the next seasonal profile or a correction to a sowing calendar, so nothing here is treated as too small.

Send your question through the contact page. It is a plain form: your message, your email, and whatever detail you can add about your climate, your containers, and how long the problem has been going on. The editorial team reads these together with the agronomists and landscape designers who contribute to each edition, and the answers that help more than one reader usually end up in a later issue.

Growing problems

Yellowing leaves, slow growth, or herbs that never take hold after transplanting.

Soil and drainage

Heavy clay, compacted beds, or pots that stay wet far longer than they should.

Pests and preparations

What you sprayed, on which plant, and whether it made any difference at all.

Reading alongside the current edition

Three pieces that pair well with this issue: soil you can read before you plant, a sowing calendar that bends to your climate, and a closer look at garlic, potassium soap, and neem oil. They sit next to the main features because readers keep asking about them.

Pulled from the archive and the guide center, updated as new questions come in from readers in temperate and subtropical zones.

Soil

Reading Clay Soil Before You Plant Anything

Heavy ground holds water and nutrients, but it compacts and drains slowly. A short field test tells you whether to build raised beds, mulch deep, or amend slowly with compost and grit.

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Calendar

A Seasonal Planting Calendar for Temperate and Subtropical Gardens

Sowing dates are not universal. This guide compares two timelines side by side and shows how balcony wind, reflected heat, and container size can shift a task by weeks.

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Pest care

Natural Pest Control with Garlic, Potassium Soap, and Neem Oil

These three preparations are often treated as interchangeable, and they are not. Each one works on different pests, at different times, and with different risks to leaves and pollinators.

Read the piece More from the archive

A bilingual magazine for growing herbs, small gardens, and calmer evenings

What each edition puts in your hands

Seasonal growing profiles

Sowing calendars by climate

Substrates, drainage, and drip irrigation

Natural pest control

Rest-focused gardens and nurseries

Infusions and restful design