More grows in the garden...

An Old Spanish proverb says "More grows in the garden than the gardener sows." This year Anna and Riley have really gotten into gardening with me. They've helped me dig the earth and plant the seeds. They've helped me keep the ground moist for the seeds to sprout and protected the plants from "The evil weed monsters" and "The slimy slug bugs". Then we begin harvesting and that is everyone's favorite part. Early in the season we start to get our blueberries and strawberries. The kids loved moving the leaves of the strawberry plants around to find the sweet little red berries that hardly make it inside. Now, though, we are finally beginning to harvest the things that take awhile. We planted carrots of every color, shape and size this year. Red, yellow and purple, round as a ball or as small as a finger. That is their favorite. We have harvested our broccoli many times, but we let some go to seed for next year. If you have never smelled a broccoli flower, you should try it sometime. It smells nothing like broccoli, believe me. More like the sweet sent of honeysuckle mixed with lilies. We have more zucchini than our friends can bare (Here, have some zucchini bread!) Our tomatoes are just becoming ripe and even though the children say Yuck to them, they can't get enough of the spaghetti sauce that they turn into, cooked up with our onions and green peppers! We are so blessed to have enough space and sunshine in our yard to grow such a variety of foods. We even grow our own pumpkins to carve. We planted things so late this year that we thought we wouldn't get any pumpkins, but just this morning, we found two huge ones that we must have missed! More has grown in my garden this year than I ever planted. There may not be a seed for love, but it certainly grows well in my heart towards these beautiful children that Heavenly Father has lent me for awhile.

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own." Charles Dickens

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