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Container Gardening

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Greetings sisters in Christ! Today is another day to serve the Lord, praise God! I hope this finds you all in good health?    I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20 One of the projects we have been plugging away at here is our garden.  We were not intending to set one up but this year, with everything going on, we decided it would be good to have one ready if or when we need it.  We've done container gardening before and it worked out well so we decided to do so again.   We bought a bunch of plastic barrels: Brother Jim cut them in half, made some holes in the bottom and lower sides for drainage and we placed them in the area of the garden.  Our land by the house has a gentle slope but we this area should work just fine. I went and dug up a lot of rocks to put in the bottom of eac

The Gift of Gardens

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Good evening sisters in Christ! Praise God for this day He has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118:24) I'm also rejoicing in the fact that we were able to get some things for our garden and I'm looking forward to getting it set up. We are not planning on planting this year but are getting it ready for the time that might come, where we are not traveling.  I know some of you are readying your garden and I rejoice for you in it as I know how awesome it is to plant that tiny seed and to watch how God grows it into a plant bearing food to nourish us!   I love hearing how sisters are setting up their gardens, seeing their thankfulness and contentment in their words, hearing how they are working diligently in their Titus2 role in the home and offering different ideas, recipes etc. The other day we went for a drive to pick up some (very affordable) fencing that we found north of our place and how wonderful that the discount food store was on the way. Ch