Back in the spring, a free packet of tomato seeds arrived with a magazine through the post. In the past we have always bought tomato plants to grow in the greenhouse, but we love things that are free, so we planted the seeds. We grew them indoors on the window ledge in the kitchen. They did well, and we chose the six best plants, bought two growbags, some fertiliser and planted them out in the greenhouse. The are the “Gardener’s Delight” variety which are the small ones often used in salads.
They have done well – to start with I grew them carefully - by the book - pricked out the sideshoots and intended to finish them off after five or six trusses. However, we went away for a while and the person who kept up the watering did not know about all the finer points of tomato growing and the side shoots stared sprouting and they have just kept growing and growing. When I saw the growth, I kept up the feeding and the fruit has kept on coming. It is November and they are still laden with fruit – as soon as I see tomatoes beginning to ripen I pick them and place them on a tray in the kitchen. The harvest shows no sign of abating!
A couple of weeks ago we had a visit in the Church from Bengt Wedemalm who is from Sweden, but now lives in UK. We are always challenged and stirred by Bengt. He preached about faith and read the words of Jesus when he said, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.” Luke 17:6 Faith is described as a mustard seed which is the smallest of seeds. It needs to be planted, and we were challenged about the need to keep planting seeds of faith into impossible situations. The promise is that the ‘mustard seed faith’ will produce miraculous results.
As I have just been in my greenhouse looking at the amazing crop of tomatoes, I am challenged to keep planting seeds of faith and looking for the resulting miracles.
They have done well – to start with I grew them carefully - by the book - pricked out the sideshoots and intended to finish them off after five or six trusses. However, we went away for a while and the person who kept up the watering did not know about all the finer points of tomato growing and the side shoots stared sprouting and they have just kept growing and growing. When I saw the growth, I kept up the feeding and the fruit has kept on coming. It is November and they are still laden with fruit – as soon as I see tomatoes beginning to ripen I pick them and place them on a tray in the kitchen. The harvest shows no sign of abating!
A couple of weeks ago we had a visit in the Church from Bengt Wedemalm who is from Sweden, but now lives in UK. We are always challenged and stirred by Bengt. He preached about faith and read the words of Jesus when he said, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.” Luke 17:6 Faith is described as a mustard seed which is the smallest of seeds. It needs to be planted, and we were challenged about the need to keep planting seeds of faith into impossible situations. The promise is that the ‘mustard seed faith’ will produce miraculous results.
As I have just been in my greenhouse looking at the amazing crop of tomatoes, I am challenged to keep planting seeds of faith and looking for the resulting miracles.
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