You can see the giant squash poking up behind the volunteer hot pepper plants. The bed underneath the squash contains leeks and red peppers, but the giant squash doesn't care. And that is only one of the 5 directions it has spread.
The garden was also overtaken by the orange cosmos flowers in the foreground. Most of them are over to the left of the photo. It's actually a fabulous orange flower garden. The bees and the butterflies thinks so as well. I had some qualms about letting these vigorous re-seeders grow up everywhere, but why not? I mean, I can get vegetables at the store. First I just let them take over the the lettuce patch when the lettuce was reaching its end. But I couldn't bring myself to uproot them from the onions, so they took over that as well. Plus the cabbage bed. And I've harvested so many seeds from them this summer that I could sell them! But I'll probably just replant them all over the yard.
There is something about this overgrown mass that makes me happy. I guess knowing there are so many different foods there and the pretty orange flowers make it a food source for so many different species!
