About two months ago, I planted starter seeds. As most of you saw, they suffered horrible deaths after mistakenly being left out in one of the worst thunderstorms that I can remember. You can imagine my surprise today that when I finally was able to go out and weed the perennial garden today, there were a few plants that shouldn’t have been there, growing with vigor! Four pea pod seeds had been stolen by my toddler and “planted” atop the soil. I can only guess she wanted to be like her mommy that day. Either then when I tossed the soil to make way for the hyacinth bushes or by some natural selection involving plants, the seeds grew up to be big plants!

She wanted to help.

She did.

What’s even more amusing is that I have a few other vegetable plants growing in places were they weren’t quite expected, either. For instance two more pea vines at the end of the driveway, and a pepper plant near the deck. The sad part is, they’re growing better where they’re not supposed to be, than the ones in my garden.

Go figure.