Manifesting

A friend of mine has mentioned “manifesting” many times.

Manifesting is defined as the materialization of something.

I grew up being taught “ask and you shall received”.
I know that there have been many times over the 26 years of my life when I’ve asked for something, and it’s (directly or indirectly) come to pass… but I’ve never really felt that I’m controlling it per se. Maybe I’ve just been blind to what’s happening.

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Next year’s garden

I believe (hope) that we are finally at a point where we can start planning for our formal sculpted garden (dispite the fact that we’ve not even harvested all from this year’s garden!).

It might sound odd that I’m coupling the words ‘formal garden’ with ‘harvest’, but I am planning on planting along ‘Companion Planting’ guidelines, and mingling flowers and shubbery with fruits and vegetables

What do I want more or less of?

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Canning Calculations

Our garden this year has seemed to fall behind others’ gardens.

The veg is looking great, but everything has seemed 2 weeks behind ‘normal’ production schedules that I’ve seen elsewhere.

Of course, some of this could be because we have non-gm heirloom plants, rather than special everything-tolerant plants. I don’t know.

I printed out a copy of our 5-week menu and started by identifying which meals have a base of tomatoes.

I figured that the cycle repeats itself 10.4 times in the year, so I rounded that up to 11.

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