Revised: April 2024
Gardening Series, Part 8
Insights from Nature on Soil
With a tip for those who have started seeds indoors.
You will appreciate the time you took these past weeks for testing and making charts and lists. Now all you have to do is follow your schedule and enjoy being outside in your garden.
Today's assignment will help you have a better understanding and a clearer intent as you work with your soil. It will give you insight into nature's perspective on soil, fertilizing and the impact of you and your attitude while working in the garden.
The potential quality of vibrant life energy that is part of the makeup of all that is to grow in your garden must have, as its base, an equal source of life energy from which to draw. This is one of the dynamics of universal natural law — the balanced interrelationship of energy on all its levels. As you concentrate to expand awareness around that which is above ground level in the garden, expand awareness equally to that which is below the surface. As you open to and assist the expansion of potential above the ground, remember to open and assist an equal expansion below. The two levels function as a team, and your efforts above ground will be greatly eased and enhanced if the team is kept working in tandem.
— from "Pan on Soil and Nature's Partnership with the Gardener"
pp. 169-170 of The Perelandra Garden Workbook by Machaelle Wright
All Gardeners 
Read pages 169-170 of your Perelandra Garden Workbook, "Pan on Soil and Nature's Partnership with the Gardener." Then read pages 178-180, "Nature on Plant and Soil Orchestration" and "Pan on Technology and Intent."
If you missed getting your fertilizer information, see Preparing the Soil.
If you haven't yet made your spring schedule, see Scheduling and Rolling On.
You will want to have this information before you start working in your garden.
For Those Who Have Started Seeds Indoors or in a Greenhouse
You should be well into thinning your seedlings, and you may be starting to pot-up. Be sure you are doing all you can to strengthen and support those seedlings now. When it comes time to plant them, the stronger their root systems, the better they'll do. We talk about the ways you can use EoP (Essence of Perelandra) and ETS for Soil for this here.
If you haven't yet, read pages 153-158 to learn how to chart your use of the Solutions and fertilizer to strengthen your seedlings through all stages of growth, potting up and hardening off before planting.
Also, Machaelle gives important tips for Thinning on page 159, and shares our secrets for successful potting up on page 160.
This is a bustling, wonderful time of year for gardeners. Enjoy!
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