There are several potato plants and onions ready to come out!!!
I feel so gratified by my garden. It really didn't take THAT much work and now I will have enough fresh food to last for most of the summer. Perhaps if I were smarter or more dedicated or something, I would be able to grow food all year round. I'll do that someday but for now I'm happy to have arugula salad with some onions. And baked potatoes for everyone!
Besides providing food for me and my family, the garden is the place I go when everything else in life seems too much. We get so caught up in our little lives, yet so much LIFE is teeming all around us at any given moment. Lift a rock and you'll see the depth of life occurring beyond your own mind. Just within the confines of my small garden is an entire universe of life; the plants, insects, microbes, everything working together in symbiosis, millions of lives all changing and growing, living and dying. How's that for getting a glimpse outside yourself?
Garden Sanctuary
You who walk
With troubled thoughts
Come, enter here and rest
And may the sweet serenity of growing things
And the heavenly peace
Be mirrored in your soul
-Doxis M. Palmer
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