flaflwrgrl said:Dumping all those old seeds into a bowl & tossing them in the far corner of the garden sounds like a capital idea Jan! I can't wait to see what pops up in there. Sometimes I just love surprises in my garden!
This just reminded me of my father. He was a great vegetable gardener and used to grow all sorts of veggies on his sun deck out back. One day we were visiting him and he was out back as usual, he loved to garden. My daughter who was 8 at the time used to run out to the back deck and hang out with Grandpa whenever we visited. One day my wife noticed a lot of strange plants (not weeds) growing in our courtyard in front of the house As it turned out our daughter was given vegetable seeds by Grandpa and told she could start her own garden at our house, she must have saved them in her room and planted them all while mom was pulling weeds in the front yard or when I was mowing as she would follow us out to help. We had watermelon, cucumbers, corn, beans, snap peas, etc, etc, etc growing next to our miniature date palms, and front yard landscaping all that year.
The cat's sure eat up the foliage, making it ratty looking but it's always worth it since they turn into those beautiful butterflies!
