The push to get everything in the ground
That brief stretch where everything feels possible… and nothing feels certain
There’s a point in the season where everything starts to speed up. It’s subtle at first. A few warmer days, as if the soil is begging for plants. And then all at once, it feels like the window is finally open. Not wide or forever, just long enough that you can feel it.
And with it comes this kind of energy that’s hard to name. Part excitement, part pressure, part hope.
Because this is the stretch where things finally go in the ground. The plans you’ve been obsessing over, the starts you’ve been tending, the ideas that have been sitting just on the edge of becoming something real. This is when you finally get to move them into the soil :)
And this is also the point where it starts to feel more real. It’s something that’s been coming up in the garden circles too, not as a topic exactly, but in the way people talk once they settle in. What they’re putting in the ground, what they’re unsure about, what they’re hoping will take.
Because alongside the excitement is something else, uncertainty. The weather can still turn (Mother Nature does as she pleases), the timing might be off, the soil might not be quite what you thought it was.
Things might take, or they might not. You don’t really know yet.
You’re working with a mix of instinct and hope, trying to catch the right moment without being able to control it. And it creates this quiet pressure. Not panic, not urgency in the loud sense, just a steady awareness that this matters. All the while knowing that what you do right now shapes the season.
It’s a strange place to be. You’re asked to move forward before you have proof. To plant before you know. To commit to something that’s still uncertain.
And I think this is one of the most honest parts of gardening. Not when everything is growing, and not when everything has settled, but right here. Where you’re making decisions in real time, working with what you have, trying to read the conditions and respond, even though you can’t fully see how it’s going to play out.
It’s not that different from other parts of life. That same feeling of thinking this might be the moment, but not being entirely sure. And still choosing to move.
If you’re in that space right now, this is exactly the kind of thing that opens up when people sit down together.
If you’ve been wanting to come to a garden circle, there are still a few spots open for the upcoming gatherings:
May Gatherings
Tuesday, May 5 — Boise: Hyde Perk Coffee House • 1:30 PM
This circle is full.
Tuesday, May 12 — Nampa: Franz Witte Garden Center • 1:30 PM
This circle is full.
Tuesday, May 19 — Boise: Hyde Perk Coffee House • 1:30 PM
A few spots are available.
👉 Reserve your place
Tuesday, May 26 — Nampa: Franz Witte Garden Center • 1:30 PM
A few spots are available.
👉 Reserve your place
Ashley