Archive for February 3, 2009

Planting our garden

Isaiah 51:3
For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody

Yes, it’s February, but one of the things we are seriously looking into and are starting, is planting our own garden.

There are many plants that can just get started in containers till the weather gets warmer, in addition, many do well in containers without having to dig up a garden.

However, we plan on digging up a garden, in addition to “container gardening” .

Some of the plants we will be planting directly in the ground are:

  • Cabbage
  • Onions
  • Squash
  • Garlics
  • Carrots
  • Bell peppers-Red and Green

Our container plants that we are getting started are:

  • Chili peppers
  • Cucumbers (Yes, Cucumbers! We learned of a way that involves a large plant container and creating a stand for the vines to grow up on)
  • Tomatoes
  • Green Onions
  • Rosemary
  • Basil
  • Thyme

As we decide more what we want, I will make sure to update posts here.

Gardens, even the smallest one, can become windows to our inner life. Weeding and cultivating, planting and harvesting, celebrating successes and bemoaning failures can teach us more about ourselves than we might imagine. Garden images abound in the scriptures.- from Gardenening as Prayer

Something I found and is a very useful resource to use and we are using,

Clydes Garden Planner from <a target=cdmplanning.hypermart.net/" width="300" height="176" />

Clyde's Garden Planner from cdmplanning.hypermart.net/

is this: Clyde’s Vegetable Planting Slide Chart, the best thing too, is that they are a homeschooling family!

I invite you to check out Clyde’s Vegetable Planting Slide Chart .

Scripture references to encourage to make your life as fruitful as your garden:

Jeremiah 31:12 (NIV)

They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion;  they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD—  the grain, the new wine and the oil,  the young of the flocks and herds.  They will be like a well-watered garden,
and they will sorrow no more.

Making Time Count-An Internet Cafe Devotion

Sipping my coffee, my hair looking like it could rival Einstein, I scanned over the devotional that had been sent to my email box.

“Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.” I Thessalonians 4:11&12 (NIV)

“Great devotional,” I thought as I hit the fwd button and without a thought. I picked up the worksheets, a battered day planner and textbooks and headed off to start another day of school, daily chores, going through mounds of email and mounds of laundry.

Ironically, as I found some time later in the week to sit down and go through mounds of email as everyone slowly drifted to sleep, I reflected on a bible study that I had done that day and my mind drifted back to that devotional.

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