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    Last Modified: Sep 24, 2018 by Tara Ziegmont 4 Comments

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    Garden Wild CardsPin

    I get excited by volunteer plants, remnants of last year's planting that survived the winter or grew up to make seeds that sowed themselves. We have at least one volunteer every year.

    I read a neat article on Nurture Store last week, about gardening with wild cards. Cathy and her two daughters garden in the city in the UK, and her experiences are a bit different than ours (gardening in our backyard in Pennsylvania).

    We have more similarities than differences.

    In her post, Cathy says one of her favorite gardening traditions is throwing in a wild card each year - something they've never grown before, something that is exciting, something that is a risk.

    Joe is growing loofah gourds this year. I think those qualify.

    The same day I read Cathy's words, I went outside with the girls and found two (2!) volunteer plants in places they shouldn't have been.

    I found both of them in flower pots still holding remnants of last year's annuals, apparently planted by squirrels hoarding seeds cast aside from last year's pumpkin adventures.

    (I may have neglected a pumpkin or five in the backyard to be devoured by the local wildlife.)

    I have no idea what these little plants will become, nor if they will become anything at all.

    We'll see!

    After I wrote and scheduled this post, we had a hailstorm that I fear killed the smaller of my two wild cards. Time will tell, but I think the stem is broken.

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    1. Robyn Wright of Robyn's Online World says

      May 14, 2013 at 9:01 pm

      I love that you call them volunteers!!!!

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      • Tara Ziegmont says

        May 14, 2013 at 9:38 pm

        That's what Old Grandma calls them, too. 🙂

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    2. Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      May 15, 2013 at 1:40 pm

      Loofah gourds? Total wild card material! Hope you'll share some photos of them as they grow. And I love that you call them volunteer plants too - makes them sound so helpful.

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      • Tara Ziegmont says

        May 15, 2013 at 5:24 pm

        Volunteers are helpful! They sprung up from last year's crop without any work or expense. I love them; I'm so excited when one springs up. The littler one in the photo did get broken by the hail, so we're down to just the bigger one.

        Yes, we'll update about the loofah gourds. We've never seen anything like them. Joe also planted some teeny eggplants called pumpkin on a stick. They're for decorating. We'll see how they go!

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