Alas, my cat doo doo Kale..

The kale I planted last year( I think it was last year) yielded very little and I certainly didn't treat it right. I more or less just tossed a handful of seeds in the tiny strip of what I call garden space that at the time didn't have any particular herbs or prized flowers lurking. This season, the tiny areas of plantable land by the walkway were inundated with copious amounts of feline feces, and I have a huge problem with eating anything born of cat doo doo dirt-especially if it is a low growing thing that might be served minimally processed or a root. To my surprise and horror, a surviving kale began to flourish amid the droppings:

I'm sad about it and afraid to eat it, so it is feeding some gorgeous little butterfly larvae. Those green worms that love to feast on cabbages and their relatives turn into such charming creatures that I don't consider this a total waste. I have been drooling over this kale! I'll just watch the myriad butterflies dance in the sun now and plot how I'm going to keep the cat dung out of next years ground. I figure a season will mitigate any nasties in the soil. I don't have such a heavy aversion to stuff grown out of composted herbivore poop, but certain kinds of dung-especially freshly deposited carnivore and human dung terrify me. I'm also trying to find plants that produce yummy things that aren't so low to the ground due to my bending and squatting difficulties. I have one tomato in a pot and I wish I had ten. Only two blueberry bushes and one blackberry and I covet 20! I'm contemplating cloning. I really don't know if I'll be up to the task. The yard might be just full of huge pots next season, I tossed some cheap dollar store flower seeds and a seed blanket hopefully onto the cat doo doo infested garden soil and in spite of the felines repeated attempts to hide more nasty packages, they grew. I unceremoniously stuffed some tiger lilies in spots and they grew too. 

I have Passiflora incarnata popping up everywhere, flowering and preparing to fruit. My youngest daughter just loves to eat them! I may or may not make some jelly and syrup this year. I would love it if the vines would eclipse the horrid bermuda grass in the rest of the dreadful little suburban yard. Stray pumpkin seeds left behind by last Halloween's pumpkin carving have sprouted, and I'm trying with minimal effort to keep them alive. It would be a hoot to have a few yard pumpkins and I expect that if I do, they will be miniscule and early. Would it be absolutely disgusting if I made a yard box of nice loose dirt especially for the Capricious kitty and then allowed nature to compost it all for a year or so? Would it be really gross if I let the cat do her thing for a season and then curtailed her from it for a good while and then planted something yummy? The kale says I should give it a go.