Grow Seeds, Grow

Author: Meera, March 24, 2013
The lettuce and peas and onions are already ready for our table

The lettuce and peas and onions are already ready for our table

 

I loved that command, “Grow seeds, grow,” when I first read it in Arnold Lobel’s book about Frog and Toad, two best friends. Now that I’ve planted seed flats with heirloom seed, I water and watch it daily for signs of life. And that command to the seeds keeps popping into my mind.

 

What is growing and rapidly is the purple Chinese wisteria that we planted in the area we’ve designated as a sitting area in the garden. It already has a concrete slab large enough for a car. We plan to tile that concrete with a pretty backyard patio tile and build a trellis around it to support the wisteria.

 

Also growing are the baby apricots that have formed as the blooms leave the tree in the wind or by dropping to the ground. The peaches are swelling in size as are the almonds on the tree that we cut so severely that my neighbor thought it might not recover. It has.

 

The garden will rapidly take off with another rain and the forecasters say we have chance for showers on Tuesday, my birthday, and the beginning of Passover. Surely the timing will be auspicious for my garden.

 

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