Considering how
crazy our spring and summer were, I was pleased with how well my garden
produced this year. Could it have been
better, sure, but it could have also been much worse.
I wasn’t able to
keep on top of my edible weeds, or even the other weeds for that matter. And, while it gave my garden a rather unkempt
appearance, I did discover that there was a benefit to those weeds.
First off, many of
my plants actually grew better, and produced more, where I didn’t get the weeds
removed from around them. Part of that
is probably because the weeds acted like a form of mulch and kept the moisture
in.
Also, I read
somewhere (I wish I could remember where so I could find it again) that plants
growing wild, such as weeds, are growing in that particular spot because the
soil needs whatever the plant can give it, because plants give to the soil as
well as take nutrients from it. Thus, by
removing the weeds, we are depriving the soil of what it really needs.
Which brings me to
another thought. How many times have you
thought that you wanted something in particular, or wanted a specific set of
circumstances, only to find out that it wasn’t beneficial at all?
The opposite is true too. I know I have fought long and hard against doing something only to find out when I finally gave up and did it, it produced the exact outcome I wanted all along, but I didn’t realize that was the path to achieve it. Sometimes what we reject, we really need.
Beth
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