The Waiting Place

The key to everything is patience.

You get the chicken by hatching the egg,

not by smashing it.

~Arnold H. Glasgow

Now is the time in the garden I call “the waiting place.” The seeds are sown, the seedlings tucked in and creeping onward and upward steadily each sunny day. The early spring lettuces are ripe for picking, so are the tender shoots of fresh herbs…but the majority of the garden has me in growing limbo as I wait for summer squash blossoms to appear, baby peas to swell and that first tiny green tomato.

The weather is balmy and I’d happily be busy pottering in the vegetable garden except that there isn’t much to do right now. The beds are mulched, weeded and watered and aside from the occasional fertilizing of new broccoli heads or tying up straggling pea vines the garden doesn’t need me right now. So I wait.

I’m really not good at waiting. I have patience for the vegetables and flowers to grow in the time they require, but to sit idle is not my style. So what is there to be done while in this “waiting place”? Day one I potted up four window boxes with our youngest daughter. Day two I planted new ornamental shrubs and roses along the entire front of the house. I’ve given the pup a (bad) haircut and I’ve cleaned cotton tree seeds out of the pond. I’m wondering after just three days…how much longer until the vegetable garden needs me again?!  *Sigh*… I guess there’s always the housework.

Nah, I think I’ll sit and watch the peas swell instead.

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