Patience (Patients)

Still, somehow, there is no green growth at the farm. This is Ok though--the warm sun is nice, the dirt smells fresh, birds are chirping, and after the usual rainy winter, Oregonians' hearts beat a little quicker knowing that spring is coming around the corner.

Our patience has paid off, and beautiful weather is ahead. Knowing this makes it easier to be able to continue waiting and anticipating our first sprouts. Wiser writers than me have said that patience is a virtue.

Others have declared that gardening teachs patience, and sometimes it is clear that parts of our population have missed this lesson. How can a mom bring their child in to the ER complaining of an earache for 20 minutes? How can the patient with a headache that started at 6pm whine at 8pm that they've been suffering in the waiting room for 3 hours? The math doesn't add up, and even if it did, where are the patient patients? Why not try some Tylenol... then wait...., then Motrin if at first you didn't succeed in getting relief?

That's what we'll have to do with the garden for now--keep trying patiently until we get the results we're looking for. If our mesculin mix doesn't sprout in two weeks, we'll try the "spring salads mix" next. And if after a few weeks that hasn't succeeded, well at least the weather will be better by then, and maybe the beet greens might have sprouted.