Rachael Clark

Life presses on.

For everybody who feels guilty they let their garden go because of the heat. For the people like me who have only watered their garden 2 or 3 times in the last month. For those who wish they had done more... life presses on.

Through heat and drought conditions, there has still been good harvests for me. Bug issues, disease and fungus that has claimed many plants - my garden has still provided for me. Food still grew. Sunflowers hit 10 feet tall to give me the stalks for next year. The birds found food with the seeds.

The ADHD cycle of burnout and overwhelming "this is too much to do so I will do nothing" is prevalent with me throughout the gardening season. The "I need to do it all to catch up on what I didnt do for the last couple weeks" obsession. The "wow that is almost dead", the over ripe tomatoes that fell, the plants that shouldn't have made it - still continue to surprise me with their resilience.
Life will always find a way. Be comforted that whatever your garden did was enough. Whatever you found motivation to do, was enough.

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