Compost Magic

So what ever happened to my compost pile?? Well, lemme tell you!

My compost did in fact go to a practical use other than being so beautiful and vibrant in the white snow last winter. In the spring, I got all sweaty and stinky planting a bed of fluttery white and purple pansies with my home made fertilizer. I could see bits of orange peels and noodles from my most recent additions to the compost pile, which added a nice colorful flair to my pansy bed. I kept watering the pansies throughout the spring, and then strangely, the pansies began to die prematurely-- they got all wilty only a few weeks after I planted them! They had turned into a patch of limp dried up stems.

...What was this!?

After a few weeks of ignoring this failure of a pansy plot, I noticed one day after school, a MONSTROUS five foot fuzzy stem spilling out of the flower barrel. It was a squash! I was quite shocked,-- how on earth did that end up there?? Why, the compost of course! I must have composted some squash at some point-- and the seeds must not have decomposed before I used the compost to fertilize the pansies. I'm not really sure why the squash would have killed the pansies-- perhaps its roots were taking up all the space in the barrel...? Who knows? Oh, nature, you enigma you!

I am sad I did not photographically capture this remarkable, mysterious event. I like the idea that I inadvertently caused this squash to grow-- I thought the process would be so simple and logical, yet something was happening completely out of my control, beneath what was visible. I had underestimated the power of chance and possibility.