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What's that growing in my compost?
I almost named this post "Little shop of horrors" :-)
I have a compost going in my backyard, where I seem to have plants spontaneously growing. I am an amateur at composting, but I am doing what I've read. I do put water on it, turn it with a hoe, and on cold days I could definitely see steam rising from it. What seems out of the ordinary is a pretty lively plant, maybe a weed, growing from inside the compost. This thing is huge!! Rather than trying to post any photos on this group, I went ahead and made a little website with photos of the mystery plant. If you think you can help me identify it, please check out this URL: http://www.carhart.com/allan/plant/ Please let me know what you think. Allan Carhart a l l a n . nospam @ carhart.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Am I to understand there will be no side dishes with our frozen waffles? |
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What's that growing in my compost?
Hard to tell seeing as the plant is distorted due to like of sun,etc but it
looks like a potato plant to me. Have you been putting potato peelings in the bin? Maybe someone else has a better ID. -- Sam Along the Grand Strand of Myrtle Beach SC "Allan Carhart" wrote in message ... I almost named this post "Little shop of horrors" :-) I have a compost going in my backyard, where I seem to have plants spontaneously growing. I am an amateur at composting, but I am doing what I've read. I do put water on it, turn it with a hoe, and on cold days I could definitely see steam rising from it. What seems out of the ordinary is a pretty lively plant, maybe a weed, growing from inside the compost. This thing is huge!! Rather than trying to post any photos on this group, I went ahead and made a little website with photos of the mystery plant. If you think you can help me identify it, please check out this URL: http://www.carhart.com/allan/plant/ Please let me know what you think. Allan Carhart a l l a n . nospam @ carhart.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Am I to understand there will be no side dishes with our frozen waffles? |
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What's that growing in my compost?
Allan Carhart said:
What seems out of the ordinary is a pretty lively plant, maybe a weed, growing from inside the compost. This thing is huge!! .... If you think you can help me identify it, please check out this URL: http://www.carhart.com/allan/plant/ Please let me know what you think. I'd say a potato is most likely. -- Pat in Plymouth MI Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (attributed to Don Marti) |
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What's that growing in my compost?
My compost pile is passive and it seems like every year I have something good
growing in it. One year it was acorn squash, one year potato, this year I have a nice tomato plant. Marilyn in Ohio |
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What's that growing in my compost?
It's a very spindly potato plant that is reaching for light. It's very
common for potatoes to sprout and grow in your compost pile. I used to get squash, tomatoes, potatoes and cantaloupe plants creeping up the corners or trying to make it out the cracks. Many times, I would transplant the plants and get some free veggies. The kids and I used to get gourds and pumpkins every spring after throwing leftovers from Halloween in the compost. I had the same bin you have, plus two round bins. I moved last September to a new home and haven't set up my round bin here yet. My husband has been throwing huge amounts of old flowers in a pile for me on the back of our property, so I do have a pile started. I just haven't been adding my household scraps like I used to in my old bins. Too many other projects first. I own and operate a residential flower design and planting service, so I remove all their old flowers and bring them home in bags. Luckily, I have 1.5 acres of land to work with now. We're working on clearing some of the property to create gardens in the back and to possibly put in an inground pool. I was desperate for fresh veggies, so I used a small area off the back of my screened in porch that had some ditch lilies growing. They had the whole area mulched but it was weedy, so I planted some Celebrity, Better Boy, Grape and Yellow Pear tomatoes; some Cayenne, Jalapeno, and Green Peppers; Green Pole Beans and Straight Eight Cucumbers. The pole beans and cucumbers will grow up a trellis along the edge of the porch and I'm also trellising the other side of the porch for the grape and yellow tomatoes (they get very long and viney). I also planted a rosemary bush by the back steps and put lemon thyme, lemon grass, Greek oregano, chocolate mint, and dill in large pots on the back deck. I am growing about 50 Genovese Sweet Basil plants in a window box that I am going to pot up today and give some to friends. The rest will go in a very large pot for me. I've been pinching the tops to make them fuller and using it in fresh chopped tomatoes, olive oil, black olives, garlic, chianti red vinegar and feta cheese (what a delicious dish served over cous cous). Ironically, my husband just called me a few minutes ago from the San Jose Airport. He's been in Sunnyvale since Monday in business meetings. He works for Network Appliance and is heading out this morning on a 6:20 am flight back here to Raleigh, NC. He says it's been very cool and breezy there; I wish that were the case here. It's been 90 and very humid with code orange ozone warnings (breathing is difficult for asthmatic people). Today is a little better with a cold front moving in creating thunderboomers and a few hit and miss showers. Won't stop me though; I've got basil and flowers to repot today on the back porch. Sorry this is so longwinded - must be missing some adult conversation. I pity my poor husband when he gets home tonight! Good luck with your volunteer plants and composting. Have fun. Penny Zone 7b - North Carolina "Allan Carhart" wrote in message ... I almost named this post "Little shop of horrors" :-) I have a compost going in my backyard, where I seem to have plants spontaneously growing. I am an amateur at composting, but I am doing what I've read. I do put water on it, turn it with a hoe, and on cold days I could definitely see steam rising from it. What seems out of the ordinary is a pretty lively plant, maybe a weed, growing from inside the compost. This thing is huge!! Rather than trying to post any photos on this group, I went ahead and made a little website with photos of the mystery plant. If you think you can help me identify it, please check out this URL: http://www.carhart.com/allan/plant/ Please let me know what you think. Allan Carhart a l l a n . nospam @ carhart.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Am I to understand there will be no side dishes with our frozen waffles? |
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What's that growing in my compost?
Didya compost any of last season's tomatoes? Sure looks like a tomato plant
to me, allbeit a rather sickly one. Have no clue what the other is, although it looks a little tree-like, perhaps a walnut or hickory, pecan or other Carya species? pam - gardengal Allan Carhart wrote: I almost named this post "Little shop of horrors" :-) I have a compost going in my backyard, where I seem to have plants spontaneously growing. I am an amateur at composting, but I am doing what I've read. I do put water on it, turn it with a hoe, and on cold days I could definitely see steam rising from it. What seems out of the ordinary is a pretty lively plant, maybe a weed, growing from inside the compost. This thing is huge!! Rather than trying to post any photos on this group, I went ahead and made a little website with photos of the mystery plant. If you think you can help me identify it, please check out this URL: http://www.carhart.com/allan/plant/ Please let me know what you think. Allan Carhart a l l a n . nospam @ carhart.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Am I to understand there will be no side dishes with our frozen waffles? |
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What's that growing in my compost?
"samuel l crowe" wrote in message ...
Hard to tell seeing as the plant is distorted due to like of sun,etc but it looks like a potato plant to me. Have you been putting potato peelings in the bin? Maybe someone else has a better ID. Looks like a potato to me, too; though just maybe a tomato? But the multi-stems suggest potato most. Why not dig it up and see if there's a rotting piece of potato skin there? I wonder if it would already have pinhead-size embryo potatoes on it: that would clinch the ID. They can pick up very small amounts of light: I keep potatoes in a cardboard box in a cupboard, and they'll still get green patches if I leave them too long. Your bin probably lets some faint cracks of light in round the lid. "Opaque" plastic is sometimes very slightly translucent, too. Could the other mystery plant be an avocado? The leaves do look very like that, if I remember correctly, and they'll come up on very little nourishment. The remains of the seed could still be down there on or just below the surface. Sweet chestnut leaves are very similar, too, and have noticeable saw-tooth edges. Mike. |
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What's that growing in my compost?
Allan Carhart wrote:
I almost named this post "Little shop of horrors" :-) I have a compost going in my backyard, where I seem to have plants spontaneously growing. I am an amateur at composting, but I am doing what I've read. I do put water on it, turn it with a hoe, and on cold days I could definitely see steam rising from it. What seems out of the ordinary is a pretty lively plant, maybe a weed, growing from inside the compost. This thing is huge!! Rather than trying to post any photos on this group, I went ahead and made a little website with photos of the mystery plant. If you think you can help me identify it, please check out this URL: http://www.carhart.com/allan/plant/ Please let me know what you think. Tomato. Give it more sun, and enjoy. |
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What's that growing in my compost?
That is definitely a potato growing up from the inside, probably tossed a
peeling in that had an "eye". The plant on the outside is most likely either a walnut or chestnut, I'd find them growing in my garden all the time, the squirrels bury it and forget where. Or you dropped on as you were dumping things into your box and then mashed it into the ground enough to get the thing sprouting. If you yank it out you'll probably find whatever nut it is still attached to the roots. Val "Allan Carhart" wrote in message ... I almost named this post "Little shop of horrors" :-) I have a compost going in my backyard, where I seem to have plants spontaneously growing. I am an amateur at composting, but I am doing what I've read. I do put water on it, turn it with a hoe, and on cold days I could definitely see steam rising from it. What seems out of the ordinary is a pretty lively plant, maybe a weed, growing from inside the compost. This thing is huge!! Rather than trying to post any photos on this group, I went ahead and made a little website with photos of the mystery plant. If you think you can help me identify it, please check out this URL: http://www.carhart.com/allan/plant/ Please let me know what you think. Allan Carhart a l l a n . nospam @ carhart.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Am I to understand there will be no side dishes with our frozen waffles? |
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What's that growing in my compost?
"Allan Carhart" wrote in message
... I almost named this post "Little shop of horrors" :-) I have a compost going in my backyard, where I seem to have plants spontaneously growing. I am an amateur at composting, but I am doing what I've read. I do put water on it, turn it with a hoe, and on cold days I could definitely see steam rising from it. What seems out of the ordinary is a pretty lively plant, maybe a weed, growing from inside the compost. This thing is huge!! Rather than trying to post any photos on this group, I went ahead and made a little website with photos of the mystery plant. If you think you can help me identify it, please check out this URL: http://www.carhart.com/allan/plant/ Please let me know what you think. Allan Carhart Umm...potato, but why do you keep your compost bin by a door? Might be better away from any buildings - bugs, smell, and so on... |
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