So go ahead. Press that speck into the dirt. In a few short weeks, you won’t recognize the lush, spicy, golden-green bush that stands where a tiny seed once lay. And you might just feel a little more capable of growing the other dreams in your own life, too.
When the seedlings are two inches tall, thin them to about six inches apart. It feels cruel to pull up healthy plants, but this is how you give the remaining ones room to become giants. (Toss those thinnings into a salad—they taste like peppery sunshine.) growing a mustard seed
There is an ancient proverb that faith, and indeed any great endeavor, can begin with a seed no larger than a speck of dust. The mustard seed is that speck. Hardly visible between your fingertips, it holds within its unassuming shell a quiet explosion of life, flavor, and resilience. So go ahead
In as little as three to five days, you will see the first sign: two tiny, heart-shaped cotyledons pushing through the dirt. In a world of slow-grow tomatoes and patient peppers, mustard is the overachiever. Within a week, you have a seedling. Within three weeks, a leafy green. And you might just feel a little more
