I happened on a website the other day telling you how to grow 50-100 pounds of sweet potatoes from one sweet potato. I decided to try it. I bought a plastic tub from Walmart with a lid and some potting soil. The sweet potatoes are to be covered half way into the dirt and watered until they form leaves. I’m to cover the box with the lid and leave a small space open to create a humid environment. The instructor…
A few weeks ago I shared my little garden on the dining room table here. Now those little seeds are all grown up! There are more items in my patio garden, but I didn’t want to drag them all to one place. Hopefully we’ll have some yummy produce soon. Have you all planted this year? How is it going? It was really wet for a while–then extremely hot. Kinda hard on plants, for sure. My books are available at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B007F5H0H4
This is my second year trying to grow a garden. My late husband was the gardener in the family. Now, it’s up to me. Last year my attempts fell woefully short so I bought gardening books and even pulled out a couple my dad used about forty years ago. Armed with heirloom seeds from Planter’s, a fascinating seed store in downtown Kansas City, I set out to try again. I chose heirloom seeds rather than hybrid so I can…
While I pulled weeds the other day, I thought how this act held a close parallel to sin in our lives. If we allow little sins to remain, they grow bigger and harder to remove, just like weeds. After about a half hour, my back told me, “I want to quit now. It’s too hot out here to keep this up.” “But I’m only half finished,” I said. “Keep at it.” After another half hour, I said, “Lord, do I…