from Dust to Dust

Vegetable Garden

When spring time began in late September, I cleared an overgrown sunny patch in the back of our yard to plant a few vegetable plants. I uprooted bushes and shrubs and levelled out the ground with the compost that I have been making for the past few years.

 I planted squash, marrows, tomatoes, eggplant, spinach, chilli, bell pepper and lettuce and towards the end of October my garden was in full bloom and some crops had even produced little vegetables and as November began, My marrow plant had quadrupled in size producing marrows that were as large as my forearms and it had many little bees pollinating its sun yellow flowers. My lettuce and spinach crops had also flourished in growth and I was able to have a weekly supply of fresh leaves to use in salads. My garden produced abundantly.

However, summer surprised us with showers of rain that completely drenched the soil and the humidity that came along with it wreaked havoc on my crops bringing about a plague that destroyed my creation. Death came to visit. Overnight, a grey powdery mildew had formed on the leaves of my marrow plant, despite my attempt in saving my plant with sprinkles of sulphur; the plant succumbed to the curse.

Once again I was reminded of the fragility of life and how nature always conquers man. After Adam ate from the tree of life, the earth became cursed with death as the eyes of man opened after having a taste of sin. Today we are continuously reminded of this. There is no success without hard work, there is no control over nature, there is no control over Gods will. From the dust that we came from, to the dust we will return.

Genesis 3 verses 17-19 “ the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it. It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains. By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made.

Flowers and fruits

Fresh Produce

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