Soggy Spring

What a wet, wet, wet, cloudy, wet spring we have had.  This gardener, along with every other gardener I am sure, is sick of the soggy, sun-less days.  My garden is also getting increasingly agitated with the weather, and I believe that the seedlings are protesting by just not growing at all.  June gloom has been the theme of the month, and I hope that come July we will see some happy rays of sunshine.

What is curious is that the seedlings I started inside, babying them to become strong enough to withstand Mother Nature's mood swings, are hanging in there but are still not thriving  I have done everything to make them happy, to no avail.  My accidental garden though, is thriving. 

When I say "accidental garden" I do mean that by some random chance, and with no doing of my own, we have discovered a thriving patch of vegetable seedlings that we never planned for or planted.  Our compost pile that we have been using for the past three years finally fell apart- the palettes we used rotted away, so we decided to move the compost into our planter box as a the base for our soil.  We were out of town for a week, and when we came back, we found what looked like gourd plants, everywhere!  Somehow the seeds of the many pumpkin, zucchini and cucumbers that we had thrown into the compost found the perfect home in our compost.  So now we have at least ten mystery gourds in the planter box and another 15 growing in what is left of the compost pile.

We also discovered that our chamomile plant from last year must have dropped seeds too, because we have about 7 or 8 different chamomile seedlings growing as well!  

How is that for irony?  The seedlings I have worked so hard for are barely surviving and the ones I didn't plant, are huge and beautiful.  I guess nature does what it wants sometimes!