Sweet Fruit, Pretty Flowers or Stank Weeds?

My parents are awesome gardeners. My dad is responsible for growing the vegetables, greens, corn, tomatoes and peppers, and takes care of the lawn. My mom plants the flowers and makes sure that the yard stays beautiful. They plant and water, feed and weed and do everything else that it takes to have an appealing yard and fresh veggies.
My parents will be celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary this summer. Just like their gardens, I'm sure that they worked together to make something's grow and mature and they worked separately to make sure that they were each growing on their own to be the best wife and husband team that they could be.
It's all about what you plant.

 2 Corinthians 9:6
  "Remember: A stingy planter gets a stingy crop; a lavish planter gets a lavish crop."(MSG)

What are you sowing into your marriage? Are you the Fruit of the Spirit? Love, joy, peace, patient, kindness, goodness and self-control? Notice that I didn't say "fruits" of the spirit. It wasn't a grammatical error at all. All of the fruit need to be blended together in order to successfully carry the title of "fruit". You can't have one fruit and not have the other ones. Think about it like one big tree that produces seven different varieties of fruit. One seed sewn turned into one plant turned into one tree and produced seven fruit. Impossible?
No ma'am.
You're the planter.
We want good things to come from our marriages. Blessings not curses. So if we want blessings produced, blessing we must see.
One more thing: Have you ever smelled your hand after pulling up a weed? Try it and find out. They stink. And weeds  have the uncanny ability to multiply and make a mess of things quickly. If you don't pull them up, not only will they choke out the fruit and flowers, but you'll have a stinky mess to work if you don't take care of them immediately. I don't know about you, but I don't need any unnecessary messes to clean up. We have a full life to live; might as well stay on top of the things that we can to avoid all chaos.
I'd rather have sweet fruit than stank weeds any day...