Life is A Garden

We have a garden. It's a pretty good sized garden.  We don't have room at our house to put it, so we have a plot at a community garden.  We are growing (trying to grow) all sorts of vegetables.  Here's what we planted this year.

Peas
Corn
Onions
Potatoes
Garlic
More Onions
Carrots (nothing grew... at all)
Spinach
More Onions
Cucumbers
Zucchini (5 plants, hence all the zucchini growing)
Cantaloupe
Watermelon
Pumpkin
Sunflowers (died in the freeze)
Broccoli
Tomatoes
Peppers
Jalepanos


It's been so fun to have meals knowing that all or most of the food we are eating came from our own garden.  We started everything from seed. Some things, like the carrots didn't do so well.  Others, like zucchini and pumpkin.... Just took off and are growing great.  You know what else is growing great.... WEEDS!

It has been raining a lot here lately, which is great for the crops, but that means the weeds grow crazily. Life has gotten busy and so the garden is usually one of the first things to get neglected.  What does not going to the garden for week plus rainy weather for a week equal.  A garden full of WEEDS! They are almost as tall as the zucchini plants.  It was crazy! The husband and I went to the garden tonight to try and control what we could of the weeds.

We didn't prep our garden plot (tested not tilling the whole plot) and prairie grass grows great there, so weeds are well, always a part of your garden plot there.  As weeds started to pop up, we tried to control them, but eventually the weeds got more crazy and we (aka I) got Lazy and well, we let the weeds cohabitant with some of the vegetables. We were keeping the weeds at bay so the vegetable plants were still in control.  Well, as you read, soon the weeds seemed to take over. This is when I realized, Life is like a garden.

Sometimes we let things, that aren't the best for us, co-habitat in our life.  Those things can be anything from bad language, getting frustrated easily, missing our scripture reading, etc. What ever those weeds are in our life, we keep that at bay, while we are still in control.  But happens when we start not paying attention to those weeds in life.  They get out of control and become CRAZY WEEDS!  Before we know it, those weeds in our life are taking over.  We thought we had them in control, but as soon as we get comfortable, they take over.

We have to keep trying every day to be a better person.  Yes I may still let little things frustrate me, but if I realize that, and keep trying every day, I'm slowly killing those weeds in my life. Every day is a new day.  A new day to go and pull those weeds out of life.  But soon it rains, and they pop up again.  And when it rains, sometimes it pours and those weeds grow fast.  We always have to be on the lookout.

I guess the point is, we may think we have our weeds under control, but as soon as we get comfortable and forget to maintain our garden, that is when those weeds creep up on us.  So let's try everyday to be better than we were the day before.  We will all make mistakes, but the great news is, there's tomorrow, when we can try again.

Remember....