Spourts

It's been three weeks and I wanted to blog earlier. But I was waiting for the seeds to sprout and show some growth. We just came back after being away for three days and there were more seeds sprouted. It was such a welcome home surprise!
Here is all the Tomato plants.

Some Asian Veggie i.e. chinese cabbage and Pac Choi

And plants that are spread through vines

Here is a few more other seedlings

There are a few things that has showed little to nothing....

I've been watering diligently and allowing them to be expose to the sun daily. But there are seeds like Pepper, Eggplant and Mint that has shown no growth. There are many things in life that is like that; no growth even though it's been given the same effort and love as others. What do you think I should do? Should I sow more seed? should I wait and be more patient?

Here is what's going on outside...
The peas are growing and the rhubarbs are doing great I've also planted strawberries on the side garden between the rhubarbs.

This the Asian Pear tree. It's in full bloom! Beautiful!

Spring Break

This week is Spring Break for the local college students. We usually head down to Panama City Beach with the students for a conference. But since Phinehas is still working on sleeping schedule we stayed home. It's been a beautiful week so far. We've tried to catch up on some homeschool work and yard work.

I've started up some seeds indoor last week and I'm glad to see them germinating.

It's always exciting to sow seed and watching it starting to sprout and grow. It reminds me of this verse in the Bible John 12:24

"unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."(ESV)
"unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds."(NIV)

This verse gave me much comfort during a period of time in my life when my heart felt like dying. I gave my brokenness to God and He took my life from lifeless and alone to sprout and grow and became fruitful. If I had chosen otherwise, I would've still been alone in the darkness and bitter. Take the risk and give God your brokenness and pain. He will not be still or silent. It's amazing how many verses the Bible talks about seed!

We are also doing a number of out door plantings. I've planted three different kinds of peas on our side garden. I hope they will germinate as well. It's our first time growing vegetables there.

I've put up fences along the wall so the peas will grow and climb up the fence. It should be pretty with white flowers. The soil here is not so great. I think I will have to work on it alot.

The back yard looks like this before we started working.

Joe is working on fencing in the vegetable section of the garden. He had some helper.

I've started moving the strawberry to another bed. It was really hot today and Phinehas did not have good naps. So I didn't get as much done. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a better day. I'll take some pictures of it.

It's been hot but we have not been needing to mow the lawn. So we decided to mow Nathan's head. This ususally cause alot of tears and screaming. I guess Nathan has grown and no longer fear THE BUZZER.

Joe also took down the over head beams on the deck. It loos so much better now. We get none obstructed view of our back yard. Hooray!

Another season

Can't believe my last post was in may 2010!
Well, much has happen in this spot.
We been blessed with another child. Phine is 4 months old now.
He is just precious and beautiful! This summer we will be at home, so I hope to keep up the blog with gardening updates as well as the online class I'm planning to take. It's been an unusually warm winter and spring. I've so far planted three trays of seed. And this afternoon I've gone out and planted the sugar snap peas and moved the rhubarb from the raise bed to the side garden. This is the first year we are growing veggie on the side garden. I hope the rabbit and mice will stay away from it. We need to find a way to fence it in. I'll try to post some pictures tomorrow as I work on another section of the side garden. I feel like the ants when I till up the dirt a little section at a time.

Proverbs 30:24,25
“Four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise:
Ants are creatures of little strength,
yet they store up their food in the summer;"

My hopes are that our family will eat more veggie and become more healthy and fit physically. And we will grow deeper in our relationship with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit through more in depth study of the Bible this summer. I am pretty excited and looking forward to see what God will bring in this coming season.