What are you growing toward?

Our lawn is basically a hill, so we can't have the nice big garden that we had in Pennsylvania. Our compromise has been to have some dish gardens growing on our deck. Large tomatoes, grape tomatoes, red & yellow sweet peppers.

In PA we grew much more, but we didn't grow EVERYTHING because just down the road in several directions were produce stands that had fresh-picked EVERYTHING available at sensational prices.

Watermelon: $1.50
Cantaloupe: 10-25cents ea.
Sweet peppers: 10-15cents ea.
Cucumbers and Zucchini: 25-50cents ea.
Tomatoes: a basket of about 5 for $1.50
Apples & Peaches: medium-size basket for $3


That's what I miss the most about Pennsylvania.

Anyway, back to our garden this year. Jim wanted to try some of those Topsy Turvy planters but they were so expensive and some of the reviews weren't so good, so he made his own version.


Here are our other plants:


Notice how they are leaning. Plants are always known to grow toward the light. Only the nasty stuff like moss and fungus like to grow in the dark.

When Ryan was little we did a science experiment, putting a young plant in a paper bag and cutting a hole in the bag to see if it grew toward that hole. (It did!)

It has always been so symbolic to me that plants will grow toward the sunlight if they want to get nutrition and grow, produce, and be healthy. That's what we're supposed to be doing, too. Growing toward God, moving away from the darkness that is Satan and sin.

(I don't want to be a fungus!)

What way are you growing today?