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Old 17-09-2010, 04:45 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Mike Lyle Mike Lyle is offline
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Default Why aren't tomatoes indigenous to the UK?

echinosum wrote:
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All sorts of plants will self seed in the vicinity of one you planted,
but it doesn't mean that they will in general self-propagate in the
wild. For example, several volunteer achocha (Cyclanthera pedata, an
easily grown and tasty curcurbit, also known as caigua) appeared in
the vicinity of the ones I grew last year. But in the ground they
didn't germinate until about late May or early June, which was too
late in the season to get them sufficiently advanced to fruit and
give viable seed. You need to plant them indoors in April to achieve
that.


Sounds fascinating. Did you get seed from The Real Seed Catalogue? Which
variety? Any dos and don'ts?

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Mike.