Mystery Solved!

Its been a few weeks since I last posted. With this recent Summer-like weather, Bozeman has gotten a month's jump start on the gardening season and I've been busy with my three gardens as well as playing outside in the sunshine. I also have a new part-time job as an independent gardener. I have a long-term position working 10-20 hours a week for wealthy dude as one of his personal gardeners. I'm given a list of chores to do and I work all by myself. I can make up my own schedule. It seems like a pretty sweet gig so far, but it is hard work as I've been working 6 hours at a time in the guy's 95 degree F greenhouse. I have to pace myself and drink a lot of water. I've also picked up two temporary gigs where I help with yard clean-up and basic landscaping chores. The woman that I am sharing the 250 sqft garden with  has hired me to tidy up her elaborate perennial flower beds. She has been a good connection because not only am I sharing the garden with her and doing paid yard work, she has also hired me for three weeks of cat sitting.   

Anyway, I was working in her flower beds for a couple of hours on Thursday when I noticed the Mystery Plant. Lots of them, in fact. If you don't remember, I blogged a while back about unknown plants growing in my Movable Garden that survived the winter. I didn't plant them there and I wasn't sure if they were a weed or some other type of plant that was present in one of my packets of vegetable seeds.

I asked Dede what the plants were and she said they are daisies. Of course! No wonder they looked kind of familiar. One of my vegetable seed packets must be accidentally tainted with daisy seeds. The daisies in my Movable Garden are no longer there, though. I had a garden emergency a while back and needed the bins for transporting other plants. The soil and daisies were dumped out and have since died. Oh, well. On an interesting note, I was just googling if daisy leaves are edible and, yes, you can eat the young leaves.