Planting | A Mustard Seed [extra Quality]

But the mustard seed doesn't try to be an oak tree. It just grows. It takes the tiny amount of resources it has—a thimble of water, a crack of sunlight—and it explodes with life anyway.

We’ve all heard the proverbial saying about "faith the size of a mustard seed" moving mountains. But as a gardener, I’m less interested in the metaphor and more interested in the miracle. You can read that quote in a book a hundred times, but you won’t understand it until you drop one of those specks into a pot of dirt and watch what happens next.

Here is why planting a mustard seed is the most rewarding, chaotic, and delicious gardening project you’ll start this season. Most vegetables take forever. You plant a tomato in May and pray for a BLT by August. Mustard? Mustard is the caffeine shot of the garden. planting a mustard seed

Planting a mustard seed is an act of faith in small beginnings. It is proof that you do not need a massive budget or a green thumb to create abundance. You just need to start. Go to the spice aisle of your grocery store. Buy the $2 jar of whole yellow mustard seeds. (Yes, the same ones you use for hot dogs. They aren't treated; they will grow.)

Take ten of them. Put them in a pot. Water them. But the mustard seed doesn't try to be an oak tree

In three days, you will see a tiny green hook emerge from the soil. And I promise you, when you see that tiny hook splitting that tiny seed, you will feel like you could move a mountain.

We spend so much time feeling like we don’t have enough. Not enough money, not enough time, not enough skill. We think we need a "big" seed to grow a "big" result. We’ve all heard the proverbial saying about "faith

There is something almost laughable about a mustard seed. Hold one in the palm of your hand, and you’ll barely feel it. It looks like a speck of reddish-brown dust. It is, botanically speaking, a overachiever with an inferiority complex.