Gardening teaches you patience, the weather teaches you to move fast.

One thing you learn when you start to garden is patience. Sometimes, it is only short term patience, like planting lettuce or radish seeds. In a few weeks, voila, something to eat. Then there is the long term, like planting an apple tree and knowing that it will be several years before you get to make any pies. Or planting Asparagus, which can't be harvested for 2 to 3 years after you plant it. Or waiting for Spring, which seems like it will never come.
The weather here in the Northwest teaches you to move fast and take advantage of those few moments of sun between rain storms. Those few minutes may be the only chance you get to plant your peas or clean up those perennials you didn't get to last fall.
By taking advantage of a break in the rain today I was able to plant some peas, lettuce and spinach and I was able to sift an entire trash can full of sweet compost.

I found all of these potatoes growing at the bottom of the compost pile. I am seriously thinking that next year I will just throw some seed 'taters in the bin, instead of putting all the effort in to actually cultivating them.


So, patience grasshopper, but keep your Gore-Tex close.