Backyard Garden 08/02/09

Here is a picture of the backyard garden yesterday. Today it looks different, after cutting some mint and planting some new plants, and tomorrow it will change again. Part of the change is receiving a great number of plants from a nearby garden center in trade for some products I purchased for the center.

I took some of the new plants over to the DMZ community garden tonight and will give some to my daughter-in-law tomorrow for her large garden up north when I met with her to get the Graf Kids, my grandchildren, and cousin William for a visit here in Milwaukee. However, there are still a lot of plants for any available spaces in the front, side and backyard garden. Perhaps I can talk the grandchildren and Cousin William into some garden work, weeding, planting and harvesting, the next three days. Actually it should not be too difficult since they help their mom in the garden and I always have ‘frozen custard’, science store and State Fair on my side. So tomorrow the garden will change once again.

Actually the Garden is good metaphor for life. Both are always changing and a healthy garden, like a healthy life, is more productive.

In this picture you will notice that the Native American trio of plants, squash, corn and beans are doing quite well. Little by little I am learning about what plants grow well together.

A change on the www.nonviolentcow.org page happened today. I added a new page called Disgruntled Thought of the Day. Wiki gnome, Tegan will do her wiki magic soon on it and make it more interactive. But for now just email your disgruntled thoughts to me at and I will add them. Like a garden using waste for compost, even disgruntled thoughts can add to life. For Life and the Garden are always changing from yesterday to today and tomorrow.

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