This is a phrase that I have heard. I thought maybe it was a movie quote until I looked it up. It seems like there is a song with the title but the origin is unknown (at least from the site that I looked at ).

So what is the struggle anyway? In this case the struggle is reaching your full potential when constrained by your environment or conditions beyond your control. Take a look at this sunflower.

This should be eight feet tall with a stalk around two to three inches thick. In this case, this full sized sunflower is giving what it has got in a 1 inch cube.

These plants should have been in the ground during the first of May. I started working the ground a bit on the week that I contracted Covid. Things got busy and I was keeping the plants on life support under the lights. My wife and I were having some challenges agreeing on exactly how to proceed so nothing got done.

Last year, I moved the starts from the lights to the greenhouse in May and June and got them in the ground around mid-june. They did not yield much because they just didn’t have time to grow. I suspect that this year may be a zero yield as this is really late. But, hey we will see.

Since I completely tore up my garden beds last year, I decided that I wanted to plant in the front of the house. It is south facing, irrigated and we only use it one day of the year. My ultimate plan was to tear up the grass but that was before Amazon and then full time employment and office building and a super busy summer.

This year is just a get-in where you fit-in approach. This bed is full of bulbs Most of which I dont want anyway. It did have a huge butterfly bush that I think I finally killed. It was always touching the house so wrong plant, wrong place. I think it might be a good place for some rose bushes. Or, we have talked about that location as a future bay window.

All of that is kind of secondary to the other projects that I need to get started on now. I need to use what time I have to accomplish things that are best done in the summer time and that is not beds that won’t be used until next year at this point.

End Your Programming Routine: The only thing in life that you cannot buy is time. I am already at the point where I don’t have enough time to do all the things that I would like to do. Even the period that I was not working, I did not have the time to do everything that I wanted to do. I definitely spent more time doing things that I wanted to do, there were very few days that were wasted. The garden will go back on the list and reprioritized to it’s appropriate place.