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'Volunteer' Tomato Plants
Last year I grew 6 tomato plants - various varieties but no F1 hybrids
- in 2 growbags which cropped well but needed massive watering attention throughout the summer. So over the winter I rotavated a bed and now have 18 thriving plants rooted in the ground. During our recent very hot and dry spell, healthy tomato seedlings have sprouted all over the garden, among my runner beans, cabbages and not least my new tomato bed. Now I haven't sown them and I certainly haven't used any sewage sludge around the garden. I did compost last year's vines which inevitably included small unripe tomatoes. I think they can only have somehow come from last year's planting, so will seeds from unripe tomatoes survive composting or might it be bird activity? Whatever, as they seem likely to be true to type I'm going to grow them on. I'm looking forward to tomatoes in the middle of the runner bean wigwam! |
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'Volunteer' Tomato Plants
"Jupiter" wrote ... Last year I grew 6 tomato plants - various varieties but no F1 hybrids - in 2 growbags which cropped well but needed massive watering attention throughout the summer. So over the winter I rotavated a bed and now have 18 thriving plants rooted in the ground. During our recent very hot and dry spell, healthy tomato seedlings have sprouted all over the garden, among my runner beans, cabbages and not least my new tomato bed. Now I haven't sown them and I certainly haven't used any sewage sludge around the garden. I did compost last year's vines which inevitably included small unripe tomatoes. I think they can only have somehow come from last year's planting, so will seeds from unripe tomatoes survive composting or might it be bird activity? Whatever, as they seem likely to be true to type I'm going to grow them on. I'm looking forward to tomatoes in the middle of the runner bean wigwam! On our last allotment site we had the compost/dung heap from the Swan Sanctuary and every year large numbers of Tomato plants germinated. (and some other plants last seen in the West Indies!) One of the older gardeners never grew his own tomato plants just used those off the dung heap, got some excellent crops. -- Regards Bob Hobden 17mls W. of London.UK |
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'Volunteer' Tomato Plants
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(Jupiter) wrote: I did compost last year's vines which inevitably included small unripe tomatoes. I think they can only have somehow come from last year's planting, so will seeds from unripe tomatoes survive composting A caution: These volunteers might harbour blight. Extract from http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile...ato_blight.asp "The fungus can be seed borne, so do not save seed from infected fruit. Destroy infected plants - do not compost them." Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com A useful bit of gardening software at http://www.netservs.com/garden/ |
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