September 2021

Pullin’ Weeds S ummer is the time for gardens and beautiful flowers… that is if you plan, plant and pull. You have to planwhere your gardenwill be, how large it will be, what fruits and vegetables will make the most sense for your soil, your local weather and your taste preferences. Each year, in our garden, we plant tomatoes. The variety sometimes changes from year to year, but one thing is for sure, every year we plant tomatoes. I like an occasional tomato but my wife Cathy, daughter Libby and my Mom, love tomatoes. As a matter of fact, the little cherry tomatoes are like popcorn snacks for Cathy and Libby. Tomatoes can be an entire meal for them but not for me or our son John. In addition to our little tomato patch, we plant a couple of other varieties of vegetables and By Jack Klemey r fruit. We now have a nice selection of strawberry plants, and a small patch of asparagus. I know these two things to be true, if someone doesn’t tend to the garden, the weeds quickly consume the producing plants and make the harvest a disappointment. Secondly, if in times of draught, someone doesn’t water the plants in the garden early in themorning or later in the day after they are out of the sun, the plant wither and die, ending the hopes for any kind of harvest. The garden is a great metaphor that points to a couple of my favorite passages in the Bible. The Parable of the Sower lives out each year and the seasons from Ecclesiastes rings true. Your business is very much a garden. What you choose to sell, produce or offer is based on your