It's starting to cool off here. Not a lot, but enough that things have really slowed down in my garden. Time to pull out plants that aren't producing anymore and start cool-weather crops.
I had several older packets of seeds that I just kept forgetting to plant, so I had tried planting those a week or so ago. Most of those old seeds didn't even germinate. I realized that when I have seeds in my life, even if they're good, if they're not planted promptly, they don't grow into anything at all.
As I pulled out the corn stalks that didn't produce any ears of corn, I was a bit frustrated. But then I noticed that the roots had loosened the soil and that it was a rotation that helped the garden as a whole. If you keep planting the same things in the same spots, you are much more likely to have pests and diseases. It's not quite as big a deal in a small garden, but it makes me feel better. So even though I didn't get corn, I helped the garden. Maybe when things in my life don't go the way I had thought, I can remember that perhaps it was a "crop" that was important for my life as a whole.
Finally, as I yanked out the plants that just aren't producing as well as they did this summer, I reminded myself that sometimes there are good things in my life that have come to an end. It doesn't mean that they didn't produce a great crop, but their time is over.
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