“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.” — Gertrude Jekyll Do you have a vegetable garden? Or have you ever had one? When I was a kid, I assumed everyone had a garden. Out where I lived in the country, everybody did, and …
Gardening – An Instrument of Grace
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero It’s green bean time in our garden. I grow stick beans. Those are beans that you have to supply something for the vines to grow up onto. We use an overhead wire strung between wooden posts and then twine strings attached to the wire …
Bean Picking Time
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. ~Daniel Webster Do you have a garden? Have you ever had a garden? When I looked for quotes for this post, most of the quotes were about …