Lesson from a Garden #2

The first couple of years my friend and I gardened together we would plant tomatoes and then 6 weeks later or so we would put cages  around them. It was hard painful work.

Then we got smart and began putting the cages up as soon as we planted the tomato plants. The wire cages seemed so big compared to the plants. Then last year I made 9 of the tomato cages pictured below out of pvc. I got so tired of the wire cages not being able to hold the weight of the plants as they grew much taller than the cages.

This year I planted the tomatoes and then put these big white frames over them. The tomatoes are probably twice as big as when planted.

I always think that putting the cages up when the plants are so small is a wondeful picture of faith--the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen.

I hope for the tomatoes that I cannot see.

It's also easy to just start the garden season with the faith that I will need the cages rather than waiting until the plants are large and unwieldy before putting on the cages. If only I started life or life events with faith rather than letting things get into a mess and then fix it.