Gardening is the mother of all therapies

I would like to suggest to anyone with a lot of stress in your life...take up gardening. Yes, you can't really do it during the winter (maybe herbs in pots), but during the stressful, busy summer months, a garden is a panacea of positivity in a world drowning in disaster. It reminds us that God still sends rain in due season, peas still come in a pod, radishes still grow like crazy, and tomatoes love the sun!
Many people may be unaware, or perhaps only vaguely aware, but a food crisis is developing, slowly but surely. As the West gradually falls into Depression (yes, no recession here), our ability to grow enough food to meet our needs is falling further behinds. We are mining the goodness right out of the soil, and I only have to look out my window to see the results...genetically modified crops, a desperate attempt to avoid nature's loathing of monoculture. Nature (which is to say God Himself) prefers a huge variety of plants, which feed each other in healthy competition. Add some animals, and we have a harvest for ourselves, and the land does not starve. God never intended for 10,000 genetically modified canola plants to exist in the same 1 acre of land!
I love my garden, small as it is this year. I have about 14 broccoli plants, which are doing quite well, about 10 cucumber plants, which got off to a late start, thanks to frost kill of the first batch...live and learn. We just pulled a whole schwack of radishes, and some beans are climbing up. I purchased some tomato plants, which are now flowering and attracting bees. My daughter planted sunflowers, which grew (without much watering at all, I might add), and are now more than 1 foot tall! Everything is growing fast, and strong. Weeds have been beaten, and the tiny ones sprouting at this stage are nothing. Only the carrots did not germinate well, but the seeds are old, so, I suppose a new batch is in order...next year.
We are well on track to bringing our friends out here to live, the bank will loan the money, and we will have a barn with plenty of water for winter (and a root cellar!)
None of this happened without generous blessing from God, and lots of agonizing, praying, sweating, and selling things I didn't really need to get the things I wanted.

Here are some photos for those who like the visuals:
Blueberry bushes! We now have 21 bushes in total, all about 2 years old (I think), about 1.5 feets tall. They were on sale for about $2.50 each, and in very good condition, so how could I resist? I just love blueberries, and so does the rest of the family.Broccoli, peas, and tiny asperagus plants growing in tires filled with soil and manure. The asperagus are in a circle around the broccoli, and I'm going to move them somewhere else soon.
Radishes and beans in the same tire. The radishes will be harvested long before the beans ever get going, so I can use the same space twice. Companion planting!
Not pictured: Tomatoes and pickling cukes in several tires, getting VERY big!