Gardening.not what you think!
I was listening to a few of my favorite speakers this morning. One made a point about being patient is a lot like gardening...or even large farming, I suppose. I've seen some really great responses on here to the question of how long it will take to be profitable with creating our websites and affiliate marketing. It really clicked in my head to make the connection between the two...gardening and WA.
Typically, during the Spring is when most plants...fruits/veggies are planted. Then we have to wait for days...even months...sometimes years...to reap the rewards of our hard work during that Spring. We prepare the ground, plant the seeds, fertilize, weed, mulch, water, etc...in order to harvest the very best foods we can. Some of us will take it even further and go the organic route and not use chemicals, deciding to use the sweat of our brow or other ingenious ways of pest control...and weed control. It's all in what shortcuts we want to take and the end result we desire...and of course, our potential customer demographic.
Building our websites is so much like this! We lay the foundation, do research for our articles, learn all we can and do all we can to make our content compelling...encouraging visitors to not only come back repeatedly, but to tell their family and friends about it!
The most important thing in both endeavors is to not give up. Don't quit watering, don't quit feeding, don't stop making your website better, don't neglect your site! Eventually, it happens...the success we all look for. That bumper crop of cucumbers, pumpkins, or new followers, conversions, and sales!
Just one thing to keep in mind...just like with gardening, planting (content writing, perhaps) can be done year round! Cold weather crops are some of the best!
Good luck all and keep on typing!!
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And all those little creature that feast on my garden, they are appreciative of my effort because they return often to eat. They certainly tell their friends about my abundance of effort. Larry
No deer although I have a friend who plants 250 shrubs each year for his visiting deer at his cabin. We do have a dog who assists in determining produce quality by sampling everything.
Fruit season started with cherries, apricots, peaches, apples and pears, some nectarines left to pick, heaps of different berries, herbs running wild, melons, normal garden carrots, onions, rhubarb, artichokes, grapes coming on, pumpkins, squash (can't give the stuff away~ Utahns are known to lock their cars at church on Sundays to avoid being squashed, other times they are very trusting), potatoes (above and below ground) corn, as well as slugs and snails and weeds we haven't found a use for yet...
CL would use the front yard too if she could get past local ordinances..We will be well served in the colder times by CL's bottling and other canning. Lots of neighborhood sharing ensures variety. I have plant propagation (mostly tropical) in my background. so I am underway in winter with tissue culture for next years plants. Larry
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Sounds like paradise to me, Larry!! I just love it when areas are lush and green...and prolific! I bet your harvest is wonderful!!! I somehow came across saffron and loofah seeds...I think when we start having cooler days, I will see if I can get them to do anything! I so love hearing about you doing such wonderful things!! =)
Wish we had the 120 inches rainfall I was used to in my last place in Australia, and the long growing periods. Here it is high altitude desert with 12 inches average and more indeterminate start and finish (local knowledge: "don't plant tomatoes until after Mother's Day", "Take care until the snow finally retreats above Dragon's Claw"). Larry
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So very true I am a firm believer in a time and season for everything, nature has it figured out