In My Little Garden
Hubbie is a gardening addict. He finds solace in tilling the soil, planting his vegetables and seeing his plants grow. I don’t have a green thumb. I can only help him water his “babies”, and harvest the produce.
But I’ve always enjoyed these small activities. I get excited with seeing the buds of new fruits or new flowers coming out. Spring would always be meaningful for me because the mornings always greet me with a view of daffodils and tulips in the garden. The first signs of life after the few months of the cold winter. Hubby always told me that the daffodils mean a lot to him - it will always be a remembrance that even in the bleakest and coldest of the winters in his life, spring will always come, giving him a promise of new hopes, a new life. And that’s why I have started to love the daffodils, also. It began to symbolize this new life with a husband I will love and be with for the rest of my life - despite the fact that we‘ve met late in our lives.
Later on during the summer, I would see lilies, dahlias, clematises, violets, pansies sprouting all around the house. I get excited when I see tomatoes, bitter melons, string beans, squashes coming out. I already plan on what to cook with the bounties from the garden.
Even way up to the end of fall, we would still have a lot of gifts coming from my husband’s garden. The fall flowers and vegetables continue to give our garden color until the first flakes of snow come.
And I know that when we do move to a new house soon, I would make sure we would still have a sizeable garden for my husband to continue with his hobby.
Altho it isn’t really a breeze to tend a garden. You do need to know what kind of soil you have, which part of the day does the sun shine on your garden, how much sun you get - these are things you should consider when picking out the plants you want to take care of. You also have to know how much fertilizer to put in, on which plants to do it with and all other stuff. If you’re planning on having your own garden and don’t know how to get it going, there’s a lot of establishments that would be able to give you a headstart. There are services like Tru Green that can help you with that.
I suddenly realized… with the past entries I’ve been writing, I really do miss spring so much now…
