Gardening teaches patience. But it also asks us to act today. Do you want hot peppers? It'll take 72 days, if you start the seeds today. To start the seeds, you'll need compost you sifted. The sifted compost will need baking, killing weed seeds. Then mixing with river sand to improve drainage for tiny roots. Gardening calls for step after step taken days or weeks before we start seeds today, for a harvest that is months away.
If this sounds like drudgery, it can be if we don't look for the magic in the journey. Sifting compost will expose lurking grubs, white against the dark soil, to feed the birds. As we pile a spadeful of compost onto the grate, it whispers to us what our beds will be like when we've amended them.
The many little steps we take today supports the life we are nurturing. In nurturing our garden, we nurture ourselves. Our daily care becomes tomorrow's hot peppers.
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