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Volunteer Tomatoes
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Volunteer Tomatoes
I am excited and wanted to share. I was picking spinach and found 4 baby tomato plants growing. This is great news for me since I am hoping they are all Yellow Pear tomatoes (that is what was planted there last year). I was going to do without since all mine died. ALL of them (and only the yellow pears, all the rest of the plants grew just fine).
PNW weather will be above 60 for the next week or so enjoy your garden!
PNW weather will be above 60 for the next week or so enjoy your garden!
happycamper- Posts : 304
Join date : 2010-05-26
Location : East County Portland, OR
Re: Volunteer Tomatoes
Yay! Yellow pear tomatoes are one of my favorites!
cheyannarach- Posts : 2037
Join date : 2012-03-21
Location : Custer, SD
Re: Volunteer Tomatoes
Volunteers are just the greatest...
I have always found that my volunteers caught up to my indoor grown seedlings, and passed them.
Cool
I have always found that my volunteers caught up to my indoor grown seedlings, and passed them.
Cool
GWN- Posts : 2804
Join date : 2012-01-14
Age : 67
Location : british columbia zone 5a
Re: Volunteer Tomatoes
happy for you!!!!
wow.....volunteer tomato coming up already on its own!!....i would for sure save seeds from that one for next year
hugs
rose
wow.....volunteer tomato coming up already on its own!!....i would for sure save seeds from that one for next year
hugs
rose
FamilyGardening- Posts : 2424
Join date : 2011-05-10
Location : Western WA
Re: Volunteer Tomatoes
Love volunteer 'maters! Saved my last year, as I killed all my seedlings trying to harden them off. Almost my entire crop of tomatoes last year was from volunteers - and I made my best sauce ever!
GG
GG
Goosegirl- Posts : 3435
Join date : 2011-02-16
Age : 59
Location : Zone 4A - NE SD
Re: Volunteer Tomatoes
Sounds a bit like inadvertent "landracing" your tomatoes.
Marc Iverson- Posts : 3638
Join date : 2013-07-05
Age : 62
Location : SW Oregon
Re: Volunteer Tomatoes
we found a volunteer tomato growing in our dogs kennel compost pile
not sure how its going to do in there....but we are leaving it to see if the dogs leave it alone and it continues to grow....
their compost pile is made up of the grass we mow in their kennel and tomato plants that we pull and don't want in our main compost bins....basically anything that takes to long to break down ( like thick sticks, weeds or sick looking plants gets tossed into that pile....the dogs love it and one of our dogs sleeps on top of it it tends to look like Big Birds Nest....ha ha ha
happy gardening
rose
not sure how its going to do in there....but we are leaving it to see if the dogs leave it alone and it continues to grow....
their compost pile is made up of the grass we mow in their kennel and tomato plants that we pull and don't want in our main compost bins....basically anything that takes to long to break down ( like thick sticks, weeds or sick looking plants gets tossed into that pile....the dogs love it and one of our dogs sleeps on top of it it tends to look like Big Birds Nest....ha ha ha
happy gardening
rose
FamilyGardening- Posts : 2424
Join date : 2011-05-10
Location : Western WA
Re: Volunteer Tomatoes
I just found one too! It was in the garden box with our homemade compost (we didn't have enough for all 4), so the seeds weren't toasted like the store-bought ones are. It was where my spinach used to be (just like you! ). Since it's stalk is super-long, I'm going to replant it, and see how it does.
I have NO idea what varietal it is!
I have NO idea what varietal it is!
Amethyst42- Posts : 58
Join date : 2013-05-07
Age : 54
Location : 3b, Winterpeg, Manisnowba
Re: Volunteer Tomatoes
This summer I have been pulling up my volunteers, .... I told my husband that it was so I did not have to watch them catch up and exceed the other plants I have been coddling for months.....
GWN- Posts : 2804
Join date : 2012-01-14
Age : 67
Location : british columbia zone 5a
Re: Volunteer Tomatoes
GWN wrote:This summer I have been pulling up my volunteers, .... I told my husband that it was so I did not have to watch them catch up and exceed the other plants I have been coddling for months.....
Re: Volunteer Tomatoes
volunteers are always better than what we plant..... cuz... they planted themselves.
GWN- Posts : 2804
Join date : 2012-01-14
Age : 67
Location : british columbia zone 5a
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