Rant: I don't know how to garden inside

FluffyYellowDuck said:

Okay. Mini rant.

My discernment on this is "iffy" and I don't know how to feel about it, but for the past few days I've been hearing "you need to get involved, you need to help," something about gardening and I'm hearing it brought up over and over and over.

Not like heard it once but over and over and over.

And I argued, "what am I supposed to do"

And I got back, "You could have been gardening from the beginning."

My biggest piece of understanding on this:

I don't want to in here

It is way too small and I don't get how I would plant a garden in a small place, it seems physically impossible unless I built a mini aerogarden knock off and sprouted some sprouts, maybe some herbs.

I don't get it

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@FluffyYellowDuck So have you tried indoor gardening with lots of pots of plants...?

FluffyYellowDuck said:

No, not really, herbs in water but then they die at some point or my cats knock it down. Then there is water everywhere

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@FluffyYellowDuck Point taken; okay......

farouk said:

@FluffyYellowDuck So have you tried indoor gardening with lots of pots of plants...?

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That's what I do. I've got some strawberry plants in pots that I'll move outside on the deck when the weather gets warmer. The cat leaves them alone (though he took out a begonia I was trying to overwinter inside).

FluffyYellowDuck said:

well I know I am not imagining it, but I have been getting all sorts of things.

the other day, I had a vision of a giant fist punching the rocky earth, and it broke through, and then I saw Jesus grabbing something out of the rubble and he held up an engagement ring and that was it.

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Well, I was searching my mind for Biblical "garden" metaphors. In conjunction with the image of barren ground being broken and the image of an engagement ring, I couldn't help but think of the Song of Songs. Song of Songs 4:12-16, for example. Now I'm going to go off somewhere and blush.

Rita said:

Maybe it’s a picture of allowing God to cultivate something in you…..God is the gardener.
Sometimes the first step to anything is to be willing, even if this is about actual physical gardening ( it’s often a picture of cultivating, nurturing through watering, patience and faith in believing something is happening even when it’s not visible, then thankfulness when something appears, nurturing what is growing. It all takes time, faith, patience and commitment )
I read a book once about God being the gardener !!!! Lol

Rita

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Interesting point, Rita. Since the whole world is God's Garden, isn't He then allowing us to help with the "gardening" when He assigns us tasks that love and nurture and care for and grow God’s people? Or to spread the seed of the Word on various soils?

FluffyYellowDuck said:

I was saying to my youngest right before I read this "can you tell mommy 'you're a good teacher'" and I thought "what a weird thing to say about myself, why am I saying that?"

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Maybe you really are a good teacher, and you just needed affirmation?

Vertical gardening.

FluffyYellowDuck said:

and I told God I wasn't going to say anything anymore on account of being a woman.

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God may have other plans.

It starts with this fluffy....first you've got to have a hat on, then you gotta hold your hand in front of your mouth just so....then you need to look out from under the rim of the hat with one eye in a wondering sort of way....that's the first three steps. Now there are twenty seven others starting with searching the web for indoor gardens preferably vegetables of some description......and bingo the ball's rolling. Now a good dose of enthusiasm will be helpful coupled with some application......ohhh, and the cats, yeah, well, yer gonna need to find a solution for the cats ....just don't put 'em in the soup! ..

Hi Fluffy,
I don't know if you have a porch or a deck, a patio or a back yard, but you can always start an outdoor winter garden now.
I take an empty gallon water jug, cut around the middle, fill with potting soil. Plant seeds according to directions, water. Leave cap off for ventilation.
Tape the top of the jug to the bottom so no air gets in. Then place outside, anywhere. Even in the snow.
Come spring time the seeds will germinate themselves and you will have started a mini garden.
Last year I grew lettuce, green beans, green onion, chives, oregano, parsley and catnip.
I tried other things like summer squash and tomatoes and cucumbers, but I only have 1/2 a green thumb.
It was my first year trying it.
I am getting ready to do it again in February.
If they are outside the cats won't bother them.
I have 8 indoor myself, so plants in a house don't work too well.

Start small with some early spring flowers.
I order my seeds through Burpee online.
Gives me something to look forward to after a long cold winter.

Hugs
or check this out, I thought it was cool.
you can do this with your kids.