Hi, I'm Monica Packer from About Progress, and this is a Grosspert. A bite-sized way you can increase your progress today.

I don't know if you heard or not, but I am a gardener now.

And that's a little joke because I feel like I talk about it all the time

it's like the people who run marathons like how do you know someone's run a marathon or they're

training for a marathon or they're like run marathons, they'll tell you. I feel the same way about gardening.

I just can't help with though. There are so many life lessons in gardening. And this is only my second year,

so I'm sure I have so much more to learn

not just about gardening, but of life.

But something happened recently

while I was wandering my garden that made me realize something much deeper at play that I had to tell you about.

Now I just want you to picture my backyard is like the shape of a baseball diamond with the smallest side like home base

being closest to our home and then it fans out the outfilled the further out you move

away from our home and so that means we have a top half of our yard and then a

bottom half and the bottom half is something we worked on last year and we're

able to build an area of 16 garden beds and then a little bit of other surrounding areas like a little play area and a little basketball court like a very small little concrete pad for our kids to play basketball.

And I have loved this garden.

It has been so fun for me, but there's a little bit of a tricky part

because between the little basketball court and the

garden there's this small kind of field and by the end of our first year last year with the garden I noticed some morning glory

creeping up in that field and Brad and I lay down a ton of bark in this area

hoping it will kind of smother the weeds that were coming up a lot.

And we did that in the fall.

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