Well I have decided not to question a gift horse, and embrace my rogue tomatoes.
Today I counted over 30 tomato plants that have popped up in various places, and they are just blooming with health and well-being, and absolutely lording it over my poor, drooping deliberately sown ones. They are growing all over the place - in corners, out of cracks, under the trampoline, and like this one, they are all full of flowers and ready to fruit.
So it's not quite like I had planned, but it does look like I will be getting an abundant crop this year.
I'd just better not start looking after them.
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Lovely crop of toms you'll be having soon Ali. I hope that they are all good size and not the little weenie ones we seem to get when they spring up by themselves. I can forsee a bit of cooking ahead of you!
Oh yes Wendy, some of them I am sure will be those teeny ones, and I won't be afraid to rip them out... their are quite a few large ones already though, and I am really quite hopeful!
You rogue! I often find the self sown ones do at least as well, if not better, than my planted ones.
So jealous I could SPIT! Tomatoes? Not till November here. By the way, Craig gives our two year olds away to good homes because he can't deal with chooks that have lived with us and been good layers for a couple of years. We kill our meat birds but not our layers. So I'm wondering, what are you going to do with your three year olds? Will they just keep living with you to a ripe old age?
I have a query for you: how do you question a gift horse? And what would you ask it anyway? I know you are not supposed to look in its mouth, but that's the extent of my horse-maintenance knowledge... :-D
tomatoes seem to be one of the plants most prone to volunteering. Their seeds don't seem to get killed off in the compost heap, so I get lots of them coming up wherever I have put my home-made compost.
If you end up with a huge crop of little toms you must try drying and/or semi-drying them. They are superb done that way, and eaten as a snack.
Yay for you. Of course I am jealous shivering here in Melbourne.
Self sown are always a bonus. I agree with Hazel. They often do better than the ones I've sown.
Fantastic! I'm so envious of your lovely sun ripening tomatoes!
have to agree again my self sowers have always done way way better
Lucky you. I'd like a little bit of warm weather down here just to help the vege garden get a move on. You'll have to let us know how many kilos you get from your winter crop. :)
Roll with it! I have exactly the same thing going on with squash - the volunteers are thriving and the carefully tended ones are not looking so hot! I'll probably be giving out about it in my blog this week.
I agree with the others, self-sown are the best tasting, and the hardiest. You'll never need to sow another tomato seed - ever! Mine just get better each year.. enjoy :D)
You just can't beat it.
We get rogue plants here too, but they're always potatoes!
(I have something more exotic that has appeared at my plot but haven't taken any snaps yet - you'll have to wait)
The only tomato volunteers we get there are the cherry tomatoes, but I love them - they don't suffer from bacterial wilt which is a real problem in our area. I have tried to transplant them into neat rows, but they don't like to be moved, so I often too have tomatoes growing in the strangest of places. Mine are taking a long time to ripen though - think it is the cold (for us) weather)
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