An amazing discovery...

So, several weeks ago I got the Miracle Grow In Grown Compost to use right? Well you figure, it's wood pieces, peat moss, compost and all the other stuff. Well, apparently some seeds got in that mix and weren't broken down.

 These little seedlings ladies and gents are Mimosa...most likely, Sensitive Plant.....  I have seen the plants up close and personal dozens of times.... even flowering. They're a lanky, wiry almost vine but can be a bush. They also have thorns and a cute pink puffball flower.

I looked it up after  I was watering and noticed the little ferny leaves had closed up. At first I thought I just didn't notice them closed up because the sun was behind the trees, I saw them before I watered and they were wide open that's what caught my eye. 

SENSITIVE PLANT SEEDS IN MY RAISED BED!!! 

I know how the yellow squash got there and it's entirely possible I just dropped the seeds in there and forgot about them or it could be from my compost.  But Mimosa seeds?? Something that is a tropical and not even remotely anything I would have had put in my compost or even Dolores'. I looked for other images of seedlings at this stage and all of them are  a few weeks older than this and the true leaves are stretched out on a stem but the cotyledon leaves are the same. 

I'm not going to pull them out and throw them away but may well move them because the squash is already growing over the one at the back I almost killed fumbling my phone.

Meanwhile the tomatoes are still being ravaged and just noticed an entire cluster have been eaten, that branch is off to the right and almost hidden, I didn't pull them off, those were eaten. The larger tomatoes are starting to color though so should have tomatoes ready by next month. I think the squash took. The other one is at the same stage as one of the males so will likely be pollinating that one tomorrow. 

I did some research and one variety of Lima Beans would do well in my area, Fordhook 242 are bush and tolerate dry and heat. I could theoretically get some seeds now and plant them but it would be almost October before they'd be mature. I don't know why I'm fixated on Lima beans when I have green bean seeds. I checked and I have some Blue Lake 274 bush Beans, worth a shot to toss them in the west bed. heck could even put a couple in the raised bed. Since it's after solstice not chancing anything in the south bed other than lettuce in another month. Beans need heat to grow and mature and these are faster than Lima beans. They're unfortunately for 2022 planting season but considering they've been kept in a cool dry place, I think they're okay still.

So, wonderful gardening adventures! May well have some squash the same time as tomatoes! Ornamental plants growing in my raised bed... not all seeds are rendered dead by composting and this compost was barely broken down. 

Yay!