Prepare Your Garden for Spring

Even though the days are still damp and cold - now is the time to be getting your garden in order. If your's is anything like mine, you may find yourself standing around scratching your head wondering where all the weeds have come from in such a short space of time.

Then again, you might also find yourself marveling at how some plants have hung on to life - even through some of the most violent rain, wind and winter storms over these past few weeks. Herbs are like that - give them something to struggle for and they will choose life.

Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind at this early part of spring is to not underestimate how very much is taking place below the surface or behind the scenes, so to speak. Our gardens are accumulating great energy - ready to spring forward into rapid growth.

I hope this sounds a lot like your own life right now. The preparation has been done, the work has been put in and now with the ground ready, your dreams will simply grow up from the roots they have formed. 

We are all very much like our gardens (or our gardens are mirror images of us) going though phases, changes and energy shifts throughout the year as the seasons roll on. But, each year expanding in scope, size and dimension as the garden matures.

This maturation process is a vital aspect of a gardens growth in the exact same way we, as energetic humans develop and maintain our energetic selves. Each year of a clean diet, walking a spiritual path and seeking deeper connections to our selves through our food - we also undergo a transformation.

There is nothing quite as beautiful as a garden in full bloom.

April

Something to look forward to....

Magic in the Garden

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 

My garden fairy - blowing bubbles