I have always wished I had a green thumb. The older I get, the more I think that everyone should be able to grow something. Well, I planted watermelon seeds two years ago and got nothing. However, I refuse to give up. This year, I'm going to plant watermelon seeds again and see what I get.
Thank God, I have wonderful friends who were indeed blessed with the gift of gardening. Ana, my "zuchinni connection," surprised me this morning with the perfect compliment for my sandwich.
Who said lunch was boring?
xoxo
Dot
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Most likely you live in an area without sufficient sun to produce watermelon. You might try planting the small variety of watermelon in a very large pottery planter or a planter box w/a rich topsoil/sandy soil mixture. Planter boxes can yield a surprisingly amount of fruit. It is my recollection that watermelon do quite well when planted in sandy soil near ample water supply - such as a sandy riverbank in the sun. Anyways, if you can't manage to get watermelon to grow. Try planting strawberries in a planter - they do quite well and will produce for your year after year. I have strawberry plants that have produced fabulous fruit for nearly 40 years!
I pray over my garden. There's a little story about the tomato plant where that beautiful creation from God came.
There actually were two plants, side by side. I go out at least once a day to check on the plants, make sure they're getting enough water, see how they are. Sometimes I check on them morning and evening.
One evening, I noticed that one of the tomato plants was looking a little down, wilted. Upon close inspection, I saw thriving colonies of black, red and green aphids, as well as white fly. I gasped. The other tomato plant seemed to be okay.
Then I remembered a movie I had seen in 1984, My Dinner with Andre. One of the main characters talked about Findhorn (http://www.findhorn.org/index.php), a conscious community where they talked to the insects in the garden, asking them to leave their vegetables alone if they created a special garden just for them. And the insects left their vegetables alone.
So I turned to both plants with my hands up, closed my eyes and said to them, "You can have this plant, but I am asking that you leave the other one alone. Our family and friends need the nourishment that this plant will give. Thank you." Then I prayed and thanked God for my bounty and felt tremendous energy coming from my hands, especially toward the healthier plant.
The next morning, I was astonished to see that the plant that I had let go of was almost completely wilted. It was 1/4 the size of the other plant. Three weeks later, the healthy plant is four times the size that it was, glowing and producing. It's outgrown its cage and is now mixing in with other plants.
Now I pray to my garden every day, and talk to the plants, giving thanks to God for the beautiful plants that grew from seed, for their healing properties and for feeding my sons and me.
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