Disclaimer: I received an e-ARC from netgalley in exchange for a review.

This is a short horror story following an elderly couple after the wife's terminal cancer diagnosis. The husband, wanting to make her last months more pleasurable, has planted a wonderful garden for her to enjoy. But after the husband accidentally waters a red cabbage with his wife's blood a miracle happens and after that, things will change.
This is a really interesting horror story, with a lush garden fed by blood and desire, exploring the interplay between curse and miracle, love and hatred, life and death. My absolute highlight were the vibrant and wonderful descriptions of the vegetables and flowers growing the in the garden. It all felt lush and delicious and made me feel as if I could sink my teeth into a ripe tomatoe in just a second. It definitely made my visualisations of everything going on so much more vivid and unsettling and horrifyingly beautiful!
The pacing is also very well done with just enough set up to understand what's going on before the horrors begin and things start to unravel. It also works very well as a short story and explores many unsettling themes, but if the author ever decided to extend it into a longer story I would love to check that out as well! In general some parts could have been extended a bit, increasing immersion without making this feel bogged down in any way, which is my only complaint.
Finally, I really enjoyed that the author includes quotes at the beginning of each chapter that fit the vibes of the story perfectly without giving too much away and led to me making guesses about the direction the chapter could take all the time and still finding myself surprised when it didn't go the way I thought it would. But when I then looked back at the quotes I found they still fit perfectly, just not the way I had thought they would.