Plant Nasturtiums for chaos and color

Buy a couple of packets of Nasturtium (Tropaeolum) seeds. Get a variety. Push them into the soil anywhere. They love sun, but will grow in some shade and reseed prolifically. In a few years, you will have nasturtiums everywhere, in your lawn, in all the flower beds. You'll want to weed them but don't. The riot of color will lift your spirits particularly after a sad day of reading election results. (Orange is, after all, the prefered color of revolutionaries.) Add some flowers, leaves or unripe seeds to your salad. They're peppery and pretty. The bees will cross pollinate so you'll have a huge variety of colors after a few generations. Heinz 57 Nasturtiums! Save some of the seeds and give them to your friends. (A little cross-pollination among friends will aid the bees.) Let them spill over your walkways and climb on your fence. When they get leggy and long in the tooth, pull them up and put them in the green waste bin or your compost heap. (Don't you wish it were this easy to get rid of politicians?) Fear not! You will have another crop before you know it. They'll spring up everywhere, even in the composter.