[SoDu We Grow] Lessons from a Year of Benign Neglect

Welcome to SoDu We Grow, a recurring Southpoint Access feature celebrating South Durham gardeners, their successes, their experiments, and the plants that refuse to cooperate. We’re kicking things off with Kendra Montgomery-Blinn’s 10 lessons from her 2026 garden.

Want to share what you’re growing? Whether you tend a backyard vegetable plot, a flower bed, a community garden, or a few stubborn pots on the patio, we’d love to hear from you. Tell us what’s thriving, what failed, and what you’ve learned through our SoDu We Grow reader submission form. You can send as many as nine photos of your garden to wes.platt@southpointaccess.news.