How Does Your Garden Grow?

 

      

 

My first post started in the middle of the story- before picking out seeds, before planting, so I decided to backtrack a little.  

Anyone can plant a garden, you don't need a lot of room. The size of your garden doesn’t matter. Put out a few containers. Plant in your flower bed. Just plant one thing. 

Everyone should know how to grow their own food. If this year has shown us nothing else, it showed us that life is unpredictable.

While I was thinking about my blog for this week, I began reading Mark chapter 4. Jesus talks in parables about a sower of seeds, seeds, and mustard seeds. Right up my alley. Mark 4:26-29 is about how seeds grow, and about how we scatter seeds. It doesn't matter if we sleep or stay awake, they grow. We don’t know how, but they do.

Well, I have all this advice typed up about planting your first garden, but it can’t beat that. :).  I will share it anyway.

My planting advice:

I recommend reading the label information regarding days to harvest, how much sun the plants need, if they will do well in containers, how deep to plant, how much space they take up, etc. This is important stuff.  This will help you figure out how much space you need and what kind of food you can grow.

Choose the vegetables that you like to eat- if you like cherry tomatoes, plant them, they will grow in a bucket with the right soil and sunshine, green beans too.  Cucumbers take more space but you can do it.  Lettuces like arugula, spinach, and butter, will all grow in flower pots on a porch. As they grow you can cut the leaves with scissors for a fresh salad and they will keep growing for salads all summer.  

If you plant seeds directly in the ground, or grow or buy starter plants, always make sure you put them in good soil, so they have a solid foundation to build from. Even if your soil isn’t the best, dig a larger hole and add some rich garden soil under and around each plant so they are fortified as they grow.

It is important to water them daily until they sprout or the plants take hold.  

Now go and rest- God will take care of your seeds, and they will grow.  If they don't, plant more.  That is why they give you so many in a pack.  You can re-seed up until early July. Don't forget to weed. Until next time friends.

I wanted to share that Bible Reference:

Mark 4:26-29, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain- first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”