LESSONS Learmed From the GARDEN
Through the years, I have thoroughly enjoyed planning a garden starting in January, digging in the dirt, planting seeds, watching them sprout and grow…and grow…and grow!
For some reason, I enjoyed the entire process, I just could NOT bring myself to harvest a single vegetable.
I would feel gentle nudges to get out there and just do it — harvest NOW, yet I just could not. The vegetables would sit, become unusable and I would plow them back into the ground. All to be repeated the very next year.
I KNEW harvest needed to be done but I just could NOT.
One year my family and I moved to a living history park. I volunteered to create a garden.
I removed the sod from the area and then then began the magic.
Again, I planned and, using heritage seeds, planted the garden.
Of course, I could NOT bring myself to harvest a single bean, tomato, ear of corn or….
How perfect, I now learned!
I was great at making a ‘display garden’, not an edible garden. How perfect for a living history garden!
The pumpkins that year were beauties!
