The Fruits of NO Labor

I’m an accidental gardener.  It’s a very inexpensive and quite a suspenseful, way to garden.

Let me explain:

I used to have a ginormous composting bin that was too hard for me to maintain.  Now, I just dig a hole in the garden dirt, throw in the compost “stuff”, cover it with dried leaves and more dirt.

VIOLA!!! All sorts of interesting, unknown, plants germinate and grow from the “compost” seeds.  Some times the accidental plants are flowers whose seeds blows in.  Sometimes the accidental plants even produce a crop.  One year I got  huge crop of bad tasting cantaloupe.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells,
And kitchen refuse all in a row.

Here’s some pictures from my accidental garden for this year!

Green pepper and accidental weeds

Plopped a branch from a neighbors fig tree in a pot – baby fig tree!

Accidental Flowers 

Accidental Strawberry plant

Cucumbers that never turn green?

Accidental “Compost” Garden and a few plant that are still unknown

 

Worm Your Way into My Garden

Worm

Worm-hunting is therapeutic for me.   Finding a worm combines the thrill of the hunt with the concentrated, focused attention of meditation.  That rush of adrenalin combined with a dopamine hit when I find a worm -whata Eureka Moment!   I often wonder if all the wiggling the worms do when I find them  is because of their adrenalin hit  . . .

I started  a worm farm but found out that earth worms don’t make good farm animals.  You need red wigglers for farms.  So now I dig the earth worms out of the flower beds and directly put them into my vegetable garden.  They are free range worms.

Here’s my garden.  cauliflower, broccoli and something else.  I don’t know which is which.

I planted marigolds to ward off insect critters.

DID YOU KNOW?   If all worms on the planet died  (bees too), life as we know it would cease. Worms are busy little bees: They break down organic matter; They aerate the soil; They help to combine organic matter into the top soil and; They  even can eat and pacify harmful

Max, worm hunting

industrial chemicals such as those containing arsenic!

I do not want any arsenic in my vegetables.  I better go find some more worms.

P.S.  Thank you Laurie M. for my starter seedlings.

P.P. S  Thank you Rick & Sheila for the only flower-plant that I can’t kill.

P.P.P.S.  The 1/2 Mirapex is working so far!  I’m not exhausted.  However, I have become addicted to finding worms.

Pod Person Revisited & Judaiku – Tasty Magic

If you haven’t been following the Mystery of My Garden here are the two link that will tell the WHOLE story:

1. https://judithwesterfield.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/what-on-earth-is-growing-in-my-garden-pun- intended/

2.  https://judithwesterfield.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/sorry-doug-testicles-are-not-growing-in-my-garden/

UGO: Unidentified Growing Object

It’s a Pod Person!

All Dressed up to Leave the Pod

Now here’s the rest of the story:

Enough Fear to Loose ALL Her Hair

ooooooh Noooooooooo Fear realized

Where oh where can she be?

nooooooooooooooooooooo

Pod Person going going

Going going

GONE!

Deeeeeeeliciously Gone!

Stay tuned there are more Pod People in the Patch!

http://haiku-heights.blogspot.com

Tasty Pod People 

Visitors from outer space?

The fruit of Magic