EASY GARDENING - POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR FREE FOOD

I just have a hard time killing seedlings!

When free seedlings show up, I like to give them an opportunity. Volunteers are great and save a lot of time and effort in planting and caring for, so when I see a volunteer garden plant sprout up somewhere, I like to transplant them to garden or work them into the landscape. Today was one such opportunity.

HEY THERE LITTLE GUYS!

It's been raining a lot, so we haven't turned our compost pile as we should. Since it has been sitting still, it has given the opportunity to some of the seeds in there to spout. This morning, there were three healthy seedlings popping out of the compost pile. If I turned it now, they would just die and be added to the compost, but I thought perhaps it would be better to try to transplant them.

The seedlings lift out of the compost easily enough, and that allows me to keep the root system intact, within the compost that I lifted. I'm not even sure who these plants are, but they are growing like a cucumber, squash, or pumpkin would. Based on our recent diet, I'm guessing that they are "Patty Pan Squash" seedlings. We were able to eat quite a few of them while watching the garden of Hive account@bluerthangreen & Hive account@allforthegood.

Here is the first one planted in its new home, an open area in our garden. I think that these can produce in less than two months (if my guess is correct), but even if they are not what I think they are, we still might get some free food out of this one. Since a lot of this lifestyle is new to us, things like this are really encouraging to see and to be a part of. I'll let you know if anything ever comes out of these! Steem on!