Summer Garden and Zukes!

Out in the garden today, wow, what a beautiful day, warm and sunny! Checking out the plants, I discovered some real big zucchini and looks like a lot of tomato's are growing. As I was filming "clink's corner" I observed many types of "pollinators" in and out of the blossoms, which is perfect for making sure we have a rich crop this summer. Were in that season with the zukes (zucchini) where you really have to watch them, as one day they may be 2 inches long, and in a couple of days there a foot long and tough! As the season grows...pun intended, I like to let the "older" zukes get a little bigger 8-10 inches and stuff them! Yumbo! I had a real blessing today;

I was gardening and "puttering" around, when I heard the distinctive sound of crows cawing, as I looked up in the sky, I saw two crows "dive bombing" a rather large Red tailed hawk. I'm a real fan of birds of prey, and hawks are my favorite, so I was a little angry at those pesky crows, and cried out "God, where's the justice in that?" referring to the constant agitation of the crows to a slowly circling red tail. I felt in my spirit the Lord prompting me "Just Watch" and as I watched the hawk circled higher and higher, still being accosted by the crows, higher, soaring on the thermals, up up up until I could barely seem them, and as I was watching, the crows peeled off, it was then I realized what was being revealed to me. when, in our Christian walk, we are constantly being "bombarded" by the "crows" of life, we continue to soar higher and higher in Him, eventually those pesky "birds" will no longer be able to keep up and we will be free! Give our Great God praise today, as is written in the book of Isaiah:

"but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."

Isaiah 40:30-31

Keep up the good work!

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New Garden Blog

Greetings Garden enthusiast's

Welcome to the new NBC Garden blog! This is our first installment of the garden blog, as it will be known from this point on. Today, spent some great time this morning, in prayer and as I was weeding, I couldn't help but thinking what a great ministry we have in our Garden! That being said, I couldn't help but feel we are in a season of waiting.. Waiting for our veggies to grow, waiting for the Lord to guide us to the next phase, but waiting in a beautiful way. I was greeted by little red spotted ladybugs in the flowering cilantro, and the ever present, but affable yellow jackets buzzing around. The plants are doing well, I picked a few zucchini's and some mint (thanks Carlsens!) and some cilantro today. The blossoms are full on the zucc's, and the little pollinators LOVE the flowering cilantro! I am surprised the peppers are a little stunted, and I will consult my Garden experts about that. It could be a PH (acid-base) issue not sure, as my home garden has stunted bell peppers as well...Hmmmm?

Here's some important info:

* We need to keep up on the weeding in and outside the boxes, as we will end up with too many weeds in our boxes over time. Please don't put stickers (goat heads,cockle burrs etc.. in compost) You can put soft weeds like the flowering ground vines, and dandelions in the compost but put them on the "BIG" pile far right.

* This Saturday is a composting workshop in Sunnyvale (given monthly) for info

contact me at clink@nbcsj.org It's free, last about two hours and is a great way to get introduced to composting and vermicomposting (worms)

Looking forward to sharing thoughts and important info with you on this blog!

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