On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:39:45 GMT, "Timber" wrote in
rec.gardens.edible:

I wish, we are under snow till april and get hail storms through may!

We have a bird feeder. There are raw peanuts in the wild bird seed. (This is
going somewhere, but it may take a while to get there.)

A squirrel used to take a few of the peanuts and bury them on the property of
our neighbours on either side of us. The peanuts grew. The neighbours thought
these plants were weeds and they pulled them out with some of the peanut shell
still attached. The neighbours, smiling, subsequently told us about them.
Neither my wife nor I had ever seen a peanut plant.

Fast forward to last fall.

My wife decided to plant one of the peanuts in a large flower pot to see what
they looked like. I was eating the last of the tomatoes that we had picked
green and let ripen indoors. I took a seed from this tomato and pushed it into
the pot where the peanut had been planted. The tomato seed germinated first and
then the peanut bravely stuck its head out of the soil.

We do not have a south facing window, but we put the pot near the window that
received the most light. Both plants grew and we had to separate them into
their own pots.

Both plants have survived, somehow! Audrey, the tomato plant, is gangly,
clearly showing the lack of light she experienced during the winter.
Nevertheless, she is now about five feet tall. But wait, she has started to
grow flowers now that the sun has come around and hits her for a couple of hours
every day!

Who knows? I might be enjoying beefsteak tomatoes while you are eating Early
Girls.
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