Greens Yearning to Grow Outside

Today, Easter Sunday 2008 was, for me, the beginning of Spring and the New Year. The greens inside the sunroom are growing, yearning to be outside, on the other side of the five-pane window inserts, out with the worm depository which has decreased in size with the melting of the snow. Although the sunroom, without heat, is in the 70’s, the weather outside is still too cold and too wet with snow for planting. So today I cleaned the sunroom; tomorrow the new inside-outside tray beneath the growing power box will be put in place; the next few days many more seeds will be planted waiting, like the lettuce greens, to go outside and grow.

Today our priest in Church compared Easter to the homemade bread pudding his Grandmother used to make about once a year. She took all the leftover bread scraps and crusts, combined them with some ingredients around the house, and made this wonderful-tasting bread pudding. Easter, like growing soil in a Growing Power garden, is a putting together of scraps of life to make something new and wonderful. In growing soil we use food scraps, leaves, wood chips, discarded coffee grounds, to create compost that with the help of worms is transformed in rich soil, “black gold” as it is sometimes called.

Cleaning the sunroom made me feel good. Now it is a clean place to grow and watch grow, read, relax and be quiet. Tonight and tomorrow I need to clean my office, refresh this working space so in the weeks to come I can grow some new ideas and thoughts and put them in words. Some would call this spring-cleaning, but whatever it may be, it seems like a natural part of the growth cycle of life. After the dying of winter, we need to clean so spring can grow new life and food for summer and fall harvest. From the nonviolent worm a blessed Easter and New Year to all!

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