So I did. It was a good thing the Prophet did not command us to GROW a garden, or to EAT from a garden, because if he had, I’d have felt like a failure some years. He just commanded us to TRY. The cool thing is, that every year I tried, SOMETHING grew that was… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Gardening
The View from the Garden
Well, actually I kind of hate to admit how far behind I am in the gardening sector of my life at the moment. Every spring my goal is to have the garden all planted in it’s completeness by the end of May at the very latest. And here it is now into June already and… Continue Reading
The Bucket Garden
Today’s Guest Contributor is Devon from Defining Devon. You can also find her at The Daily Dakin, a website dedicated to her beautiful son, who has a rare neuromuscular disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy with Respiratory Distress (SMARD). Two years ago, listening to a Relief Society lesson about gardening, I was mentally framing questions about… Continue Reading
View from the Garden
Sowing Seeds It always seems like the hardest part of getting a garden growing, producing a crop, and storing up for the future to bless your home and family, is just getting THE SEEDS in the ground. Frequently, we have to wait for just the right moment. Here in Utah, we had a foot of… Continue Reading
The View From the Garden
Every year at this time of year the dilemma of how to prune the fruit trees comes upon my husband and I. It’s always been my husbands job, not exactly officially, but he’s always been the one to haul the ladder out, climb up to the top of the trees with the loppers and prune… Continue Reading
Getting Along in the Garden
Well, there’s still between 6 inches and two feet of snow still piled on my garden, depending on which way the snow drifts on any particular day. But I’m getting antsy to get the season going here. I mean the sun does come out and actually shine for hours every week where I live these… Continue Reading