Some of you might remember when a tree fell on my garden and killed about 75% of my plants.

I wanted to share today’s harvest with you.

Sometimes things seem irreparably broken and you want to just walk away. All the hard work you’ve put in has been crushed. You can’t imagine anything growing where the tree fell or where the heavy trucks ran over your plants as they cut the tree away.

The ground is bare. Stems stick up. Mangled plants everywhere.

But you keep coming back. You keep watering what is left. “I’ll just see what grows”. You plant some new seeds in the barren spots. You trim off the broken bits of the plants as they wither, and you see healthy new plants start to grow.

Then a while after the tree fell and destroyed all your hard work?

You realize that life has a way of replenishing itself. Things have a way of growing back. Oh. And you end up with way more tomatoes than you know what to do with. Because those things grow. like. weeds.

So if your garden’s crushed today and you are wondering what the point is in even trying to maintain what’s left..

Wait it out. Trudge through the heartbreak.

Often harvest comes anyway.

(From September 19)