It is crazy how fast weeds can grow....they always seem to grow faster, taller, stronger and spread quicker than that which we purposefully plant.  To really WANT a flourishing garden, one must be diligent to tend it everyday.  I know because I tried gardening and when I thought I could skip a day or two of checking it and weeding it...it became overgrown.  A trampoline now sits over my first gardening failure.  HOWEVER, gardening teaches us patience and perseverance and weeds are an important part of that lesson.  I think about when Adam and Eve sinned and how God told Adam his work would be hard....to paraphrase....the ground will not cooperate with you and will produce thorns and thistles....it will take you so much work to even make bread.....

Law 6: 
We Reap the Full Harvest 
of the Good Only if We Persevere; 
The Evil Comes to Harvest on Its Own

This is a sobering principle of life. Scripture and the experience of life itself teach us that we reap the full harvest of the good only if we persevere, but evil naturally comes to harvest on its own. It doesn’t need our help. This is easily illustrated in gardening. It takes perseverance in cultivation to keep the weeds out and provide for conditions that promote healthy growth and fruitful plants, but weeds will naturally grow and take over a garden without doing a single thing.