BOUNTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL, BENEFICIAL
  Three out of many benefits to growing your own veggies and       tending flowers in your garden .... or someone else's garden.

First and foremost article of garden garb would be comfy, though worn and torn, garden shoes.

A cap to shield the rays, long sleeve shirt and comfy jeans ... camera at hand at all times to chronicle garden progress from dirt pile to a haven for butterflies,

bees, and birds.

There will be invaders in your garden ... stinging and slithery creatures bent on taking their share out of the garden's produce,  flowers, plants and shrubs .... AND A NIP OR TWO OUT OF YOU!

SET TRAPS!

Yellow jacket traps and 

Slug- baited beer traps ... eeeoooooo! Belly up to the bar boys and drink your fill. This trap also attracts yellow jackets. These hearty, slithery creatures were attacking a raised bed with a tomato plant and nasturtiums .... making their way toward two artichoke plants.  

Lawson Family Flower and Vegetable Gardens have never been poisoned by insecticides or pesticides. 

Drum rolllllllll !!!  The results are serenity

and beauty ...

and my first ever

delicious, delectable and 

darling little artichoke!

  

Clouds ... rain ... rainbows ... sunshine - 

 God's participation.