The fun in gardening is in seeing the unexpected, the flowers that appear overnight, stray seedlings planting themselves, and today, a hummingbird pollinating my broad (fava) beans. Last week I enjoyed the sight of a fat black bumblebee, about 3/5" long, attempting to hold onto the flowers as it desperately suck'd at the nectar. Today, it was a hummingbird that surprised me - usually, my veggies arent pollinated by birds!
Last week, the fun came from the carrots, first the multicolored carrots, which came in all shapes and sizes:
then it was a carrot that decided to sprout an extra root, rise out of the ground, strangle its neighbour, and then dive back into the ground:
