Picking a date to have our garden in by worked this year! It did not work perfectly, but what really does, except salvation with Jesus!! Even salvation, or really the sanctification that comes after salvation is still a rocky ride sometimes due to our humanity! But, back to the garden. Giving my husband a date that I wanted the garden in and ready to plant, got it done. I wanted the garden ready to go by the end of Spring Break this year, but gave us until the following weekend in case we needed it. With the Coronavirus Spring Break never really ended this year. We’ve been home from school since the week before Spring Break. Even though we didn’t know when we’d go back, Adam wanted the garden in by the date I gave him. Also, even though both of us had reservations about actually planting at the end of March, he bought the plants and we not only tilled and put the plastic down for the garden, we planted it.

It WAS too early to plant and we’ve had to cover the garden two or three times. A couple of times for frost and once to protect it from the weed killer being sprayed in our back field. We lost 3 tomato plants to the frost and we’ve had to replant corn, okra and cucumber seeds because the first round of corn only produced about 4 sprouts, which are still going strong and the cucumbers and okra didn’t come up at all. So, we’ve had ups and downs. But now we are seeing the fruits from our labors. We have okra coming up! Our cauliflower is growing like crazy and one is turning purple (apparently that’s kind of normal!!). Corn is sprouting again and much better this time! We’ve picked a few radishes and have more almost ready to pick! The okra have all sprouted this time! We’ve replaced the tomato plants we lost and they all seem to be growing well. We have strawberries on the strawberry plants and peppers starting to grow on one of the green pepper plants.

I’ve been reading and watching videos to help me grow my blog and one of the things mentioned is to just start and another is to keep it simple, get organized and just do the next step. Apparently, picking a date was the one small thing needed to ensure that we started our garden and that starting is ensuring that we will have a harvest.

It has definitely been easy to feel overwhelmed during this virus. With the amount of news coverage and conflicting stories about the virus, homeschooling the girls WHILE virtual schooling about 40 middle schoolers, trying to increase my blog posts and my inventory in my Teachers Pay Teachers store, Basics Rethought, my head spins and I feel lost and overwhelmed often. So, I think this is timely advice and I am grateful for this evidence that it works. It also means that God has a plan for all things in His time. He extends grace when we get ahead of him (He saved all of our plants but three). And He is with us the whole time we work. BUT, we have to move forward, we have to step out and we do have to work! THEN He will supply the increase!