Get the foundation right

While I am a self-expressed, avid gardener, my knowledge and experience are somewhat limited.  I garden for the fun of it in a corner of my 2 acre property.  Pretty was more important than productivity when we designed it.  Through the early years of growing, that misdirected priority has left us without a lot of results but a great deal of effort spent.

A few years ago, we began listening to Paul Gautche's videos on "back to eden" gardening.  What a refreshing approach to this process.  Paul's revelations about our Creator and how HE gardens was music to my ears.  He would say, "ask the Father," or "see how the Father does this in His creation."  Not only is this a reminder of wisdom beyond what we could come up with, but it is a reminder to always look up and give credit, give ownership and give success to our Father.

Our beds were already full of dirt by this time so we approached our problem as anyone would do who is attempting to garden their first time.  We began with the soil we have.  We emptied our chicken's compost into the beds in late winter.  I'll show you our deep bed method in our coop on another post.  We added in the ashes from our burn pit.  And we threw on a few bags of composted manure.  Immediately that Spring our soil began producing abundance.

A few simple changes in the very foundation upon that which we expected to grow, made all the difference.  I cannot help but see our Father's great wisdom in such a plan.  If the foundation of truth, understanding that truth, knowing the expectations that truth must produce to be effective are forsaken, growth will not happen.  It may put on a show for a limited time but it will soon wither away.

Just like in a garden, the base upon which we build MUST BE RIGHT.  It is not enough to blindly follow along with what we are told.  The Gardener Himself must be the Teacher and His words must be considered the Truth.

Here is our garden; still very pretty but now it is a display of our Father's great wisdom and blessings upon those who obey Him.  Seems a simple thing to do, to just follow what He says.  But it never fails to amaze me how many times we fight that surrender.