Mystery volunteer
Volunteer dill
Volunteer cilantro
Volunteer radish
Pro tip: if you forget to harvest some of your herbs and veggies, they’ll go to flower and feed the bees then go to seed and feed you for free next year. And the next year. And the year after that and… 🙂
Copyright 2018, Lori Fontanes
What the Ducks! 
I am right there with you Lori. Feel guilty if I pull up flowering brassicas as know the bees love them!!
😀 ! I threw a few on the “compost” pile and they reseed every year. Will write a longer piece about this concept as soon as I can scrape together some time. Not everyone has the space but a little corner where you can let things run amok is so good for nature… Thanks for stopping by today!
A good tip. I grow dill for caterpillars.
And parsley! The question is–did you deliberately plan to grow it for them or did they beat you to it?! 🙂
Deliberately. The majority of what I grow attracts butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinators. On the downside, I also attract squirrels, rabbits and deer.
I love self seeders..they populate the garden while you plant other seeds and seedlings.
Didn’t mention this but borage also amazing! I tossed a package of wildflower seeds on one of the raised beds I was letting go fallow and the borage went gangbusters this spring all on its own. Boy, will the bees be happy!
Young borage leaves make a nice tea 🙂
How true
I love a good self seeder! But I am loathe to pull up volunteers, so we have wayward orpans popping up in the strangest places…
Hear ya!!!