Speaking of Fruit

For all the fun I've had with composting, the surprise potatoes and the accidental beginning of all this gardening, I learned a little too late last year about coffee. My house has become something of a coffee laboratory. There has been a lot of coffee grounds in the wake. Last year I was flinging them all over.  Until I read up on possible reasons why my tomatoes weren't blooming. Coffee has a lot of nitrogen, and while that is mostly good, it can inhibit the tomato/ pepper family from blooming.
All week I've been thinking about weeding and gardening and how similar those things are to church. The difference, says the Jesus parable, is the fruit. You'll know if it's a weed by its fruit.  The fruit is the key to what that plant produces and reproduces.
What if it never even blooms? No blooms, no fruit.What keeps us from blooming? We see a lot of reasons why folks don't bloom; abuse, neglect, abandonment, lack of resources.
Kids are so resilient though. A little coffee wouldn't stop the blooming. They'll bloom anyway. They'll be strong, something like fertilizer. But too much, stops the process.   
The challenge I think, is once a plant doesn't bloom. The soil is all wrong. How can a gardener provide the conditions for blooming next season and coax the blooms? Can the soil be balanced to get things back on track? Can a life be balanced back to blooming?