These are some of the fifty or so raspberry bushes I have this year. Almost every one of them has berries all over it. I am so excited for this year's jam crop. I think last year the birds ate what few we had and since I didn't do any pruning or maintenance on them they really suffered. Good thing I can parent them this year.
The point is, whatever you focus your time on will yield results. My dad always tells me that the success of any garden is measured by the number of times the gardener's shadow crosses it. Every time I work in the yard it seems that I am reminded of universal truths about life. If you pull a weed when it's small, it won't go to seed and spread somewhere else. (Like a bad habit?) If you keep the dirt watered and loose, it's easier to get the weeds out. (Like our hearts?) If you don't prune a tree and the branches grow over each other, it rubs the bark off and allows the tree to be open to disease. (Like a wrong choice leading to more wrong choices?) And keeping the soil free of weeds allows the desired plants to grow to maturity and produce good fruit. (Internet, anyone?).
There is so much to learn from the Good Earth. (Also one of my favorite books. Read it if you haven't.)
6 comments:
ok i don't want to read this blog anymore and it just started! i feel officially guilty for not having a garden. i would love one but i tend to kill most things i am set in charge of...
except for my children of course. they are still alive and kicking. so far. keep you posted on that.
Hey, you get a pass for at least another two years. Like I said, three years old is the magic number. Unless by then you have another one...
Margo I am impressed! You are sooo domestic. I love it!
well margo, is it bad that i don't notice the weeds because i can barely tell WHAT actually IS a weed?
ps.. i am that pathetic
ha ha. I mean LOL. I need to keep up with the times, yo.
Wow! I am so impresssssssssssssed! Can I share in the harvest little red hen?
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