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To sow a seed

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It is still snowing outside and it is difficult to understand that the spring is coming and the earliest seeds should be sown already. This Picture is from last year. As usual I didn't manage to keep all the small seeds and plants with their correct name and I just needed to wait which plant was growing out of these seeds. I was too early with these ones, they were getting too weak after growing too long behind the window. I need to learn some patience and wait that the spring is closer. These ones needed a pretty long time for germinating. I thougth that they didn´t want to grow att all. But then one mornig something light green was watching out from the black Shell. Evangelist Markus has written down many parables of Jesus that are telling about seeds. Seeds are like faith. The man sows the seeds. After that he is resting and God makes the seeds to grow. The man doesn´t need to do anything for just the growth, he cannot either. How the growing happened must h...

My First Post

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I am a theology student and garden hobbyist from Northern Europe. I live only about 50 miles from Lapland I even meet reindeer on my way to the village. I still want to try how many plants mentioned in Bible I can grow on my yard. Because I am more a theologian than a gardener I will also write about the plants. Just now it looks about like this on my garden, so it takes some time before there grows something. But the next season begins first inside when I get the new seeds. I hope I have something new to post very soon. The Snow Even the snow is mentioned in the Bible. Job is using snow water to clean himself. But even then he is not getting clean enough. Psalmist is asking to be cleaned that he could be "whiter than snow". The snow is something that really makes clean. My dog wants to swim in the snow and he is never so clean at the summer. The new snow is also very clean when it has just fallen to ground. But it does not take long time and the places where ...