Ep. 132 - Never Give Up, Never Surrender

Part of Thriving is embracing both the wins, as well as the losses.

Homestead Update:

My Spring garden has failed, for the most part.

I usually sow plants and then spread lettuce and kale seed around to act as a cover crop - hey, lettuce is a companion plant of everything.

This year hardly anything came up. The starter plants that I planted also did not thrive.

Why? Lots of rain.

In Kansas we do not get "April showers bring May flowers."

We get May and June thunderstorms. Almost all of our annual rain comes in May and June.

This year it rained almost every other day in May. We even had a mini-tornado pass just south of us and we got 8-10 inches of rain that week. Should have been a Spring bonanza of crops.

I added a couple of truckloads of compost from the nursery. The compost ...