Since this blog is supposed to be about Redeeming the Time, I would like some comments about whether you think gardening in today's world is redeeming the time.
Today, I finished planting my garden for the year. After 250 strawberry plants, over 100 tomato plants and multitudes of seeds, I was happy to be finished to say the least. It's always nice to see a big job finished as long as I don't think about how much work it is going to be maintaining a garden and doing something with everything that comes from it.
Now the big question...With vegetables relatively inexpensive at places like Aldis, do you think it is worth the time to raise a garden considering all the time that has to be given to it? Also, if you have a garden how well do you keep it up? Is it redeeming the time to have a weed free garden or does your garden resemble my "jungle patch" by the end of the season?
Post your comments or email me with what you think. Let me know if I cannot use your comments on an article for our website on this topic. Otherwise, I'll assume you don't mind being published!
4 comments:
With raising your own garden you can be sure that the vegetables are healthy and organic. No chemical pesticides or coated in wax to make them look perfect. Healthier for the family. This you can not be sure of when shopping at Walmart or Aldis.
It is good healthy exercise and meanwhile you are teaching your children about where their food comes from and how to be self sufficient which I find very important in these unstable economic times.
I have fond memories of working along side my father in the garden. And like Jesus he would teach me many spiritual lessons with the various stages of gardening.
So, no waste of time in my opinion.
If you are properply gardening, you are redeeming souls and redeeming bodies, your children are character building, you are learning spiritual lessons from the land, the food will also be much more nutritional than what Aldies can provide....I would call all that redeeming the time and more.
I very much believe a garden is redeeming the time. Healthy bodies, good food, great exercise, teaching moments... all are involved in gardening. Our boys and I just spent two very productive hours in the garden this morning. Can't beat that.
I agree with the previous comments. Apart from that who guarantees that vegetable will always be cheap at ALDI or elsewhere?
But as in all things seek to get God's guidance on what should be done.
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