I decided the other day that it was a good day for a car wash. Spring is in the air, the weather is nice and it’s time I start taking some better car of my auto. So I did the drive-through car wash thing, which took car of the outside of the vehicle, but I still had the inside to do. And that’s when I discovered my little mobile garden.

In between the passenger door and the body of my vehicle I noticed a few green leaves peaking out from a space in the door jam. It looked like some plant matter had been caught in the closing of the door and trapped in the door jam. I tried to pull them out, but it became clear that these little guys were actually rooted in the crevice and after doing some poking and digging I discovered that this crevice contained a small flower pot’s worth of dank, dark soil. There were actual plants growing in my door jam!

Photo documentation of my mobile garden can be seen here.

Needless to say, I was shocked. All of these years I have looked upon those hippie-driven VW vans with planter boxes on the top and all kinds of greens growing freely and thought, “Man, that’s so cool. They can just whip up a salad full of fresh greens anytime from the top of their car!”

Little did I know that I too had a mobile garden on my car. I think my hippie-factor just increased a few points.