Mandrake Babies

Indoor gardening has helped me retain my peace of mind in 2020. There have been so many changes… I moved into my boyfriend’s yardless condo and remembered the challenges of cohabitation. I conceived, and was surprised at just how exhausting the first trimester is, I really wasn’t my usual outgoing self. Minding my little window garden was all I had energy for, but was also the perfectly fulfilling and encouraging thing that I needed. (I am just not ready to write about this pandemic just yet.) 

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On Growing a Saturnian Garden

As I write this, I am 5 months into growing my first Mandrake plants. If you had asked me last summer if I’d ever grow mandrake, I’d have probably given you some serious side eye. Why would I ever want to grow mandrake (okay, there is a legitimate answer for that and I’d have known it even then, I just wasn’t particularly curious about it that point in my life—after all, I had a 4 year old in my home and it isn’t the safest of plants to introduce into a home with a child). But in Dec of 2018, out of nowhere, I suddenly got it in my head to go buy Mandragora seeds.

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