Sunday, 21 June 2009
What does a garden do for you?
A garden connects me with the miracle of growth. It is so easy to get out of sync with yourself and a garden allows you to get back in tune with the greater energy of nature/God. It quietens my mind, dissolves my frustrations, worries and busy mind. It allows me to just be; to just appreciate. That is the planting season. When things begin to break through the mind set is full of excitement, the promise of things to come. Hope begins to make its way through my life. The picking season is wonderful, the taste of fresh raw peas, so good, I have to eat the shells as well because there are so few peas at first. The taste of home grown tomatoes is like none other! I love it. All the waiting is worth it- a lesson for the rest of my life- patience is a virtue and well worth the wait. Then the end of the season is busy, picking, blanching, freezing, canning and eating. It's very satisfying, having worked with the season, the earth, sun, rain and soil, but there is a sadness as well as the time in the garden is finished until next year. But there is something to look forward to before spring: the seed catalogs, the next patch of grass that you know will be uprooted come spring. The dreams of fruit trees, more strawberries and raspberries- if you could only find room in your small back yard.
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Marlene,
I like how you described each season of a garden. I have black rot, aphids and a bazillion thistles growing in my garden and so little time to actually weed. I have a compost that I can't get right. I have too many trees in one area and not enough in another. Today gardening doesn't feel like a restful place though I have been there in the past and hope once I get caught up out there that it will be again. I planted beets and carrots in one of the garden boxes we built last year and discovered that it has become the favorite place to roll and root around in for the dog. I see little seedings popping up here and there where he did not destroy the planting. That is how my life feels right now - helter skelter.
I too find a real sense of satisfaction when it comes to gardening, love the feeling of new life. You do an excellant job of describing your garden experience.
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