I am still working away on my little garden - it has quite a few things growing right now and we have put many hours into keeping the weeds down for both the vegetables and the herbs. It is a project that I love doing and look forward to each day because there are so many rewards.
Not only does a kitchen garden provide you with a few edible plants for your table and some wonderful herbs to improve flavour and taste of your meals, it also has a therapeutic aspect (as well as the healing herbs) to it. And of course, many links to our own shadow self.
What we find growing in our gardens or the types of plants we are drawn to are very important - they are a reflection of who we are, where we have come from and not only where we are going, but how we will get there.
Your garden tells you all. It contains the secrets of your existence on this planet.
Every single organism is a representation of you. Your being has been here 10 thousand times and persists even when you feel you do not. Your story is told to the trees and the plants, it runs through the water and enters the soil.
The garden is who you are at this moment in time and the person you were and are yet to become. You have brought this garden with you down through the passage of time and birthed it into the land in the here and now of your life.
This kitchen garden is so much more than just a collection of vegetables, herbs, weeds, rocks and stones - it is your essence. The part of you that lives, breathes and communes with the earth - she lives in your garden and she calls out your name.
Today I cleared my garden of a noxious weed that was threatening all my other plants and I have finally unleashed my inner gardener....
Watch out world!
April
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| My garden fairy - blowing bubbles |
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