Garden

I’m starting a garden! Actually, I started it two weeks ago but I’m just now getting around to blogging it. It is a 3×3 “square foot garden” (also see here) in which I will primarily be growing vegetables. The layout is as follows. (North is up.) Clicking the links will take you to the seeds that were used in each case.

Melon Tomato Corn
Potato Lavender Snap Beans
(empty) Lettuce Flowers

The one square is empty because they ran out of carrot seeds. Weekly photos will follow…

Hymn

O how kindly has Thou led me
Heav’nly Father, day by day.
Found my dwelling, clothed and fed me,
Furnished friends to cheer my way.
Didst thou bless me, didst Thou chasten
With Thy smile or with Thy rod?
‘Twas that still my steps might hasten
Homeward, heav’nward, to my God.

O how slowly have I often
Followed where Thy hand would draw!
How Thy kindness failed to soften!
How Thy chast’ning failed to awe!
Make me for thy rest more ready
As Thy path is longer trod.
Keep me in Thy friendship steady
Till Thou call me home, my God.

Thomas Grinfield 1788–1870