Strays

i remember in our last house, (we moved there in the winter) and come summer, we realized that we had several raspberry bushes on the lot (huge bonus!!!) it was a great find! :-)

WAYYYY back when the former roomie's mom lived with us, she had a garden. The following year we had some stray veggies - an onion and a cauliflower - that's the good point about living where the winters are so mild.

I have lots of volunteer tomato plants, I just let them grow too. Its such a waste to pull a plant that will produce food.

I run into strays all the time. I love it. It just shows how nature behaves. I have planted annuals and they did so bad, whether it was the light, water or soil, I don't know. A year later, I had all these babies come up around the corner of the house and they flourished. I did not plant them, so they had to have seeded from the year before. We also have tomatoes, sunflowers and squash come up near the compost pile. Happy gardening Take it light....

Heeeey Grandpa Bob!! Yes I have a few strays in my yard which came to be a surprise this year because when we lived in Texas, we had bought a tomato plant and threw the rotten ones in with the plant to help it grow. The following year it grew back on it's own and we had tomatos galore! lol We didn't have a tomato plant in Arkansas but we got one last year which didn't do so well but we did manage to get a few tomatos but not much and again we put all the rotten ones at the bottom to help it grow some but it didn't work so we hoped it would grow back this year and stronger. Well it didn't grow back but we did get a surprise which a tomato plant is now growing on the other side of the deck!! Now we wonder how in the world did that happen? We planted it on the other side so how did it cross the deck and grow there? lol Beats the heck out of us but we don't mind and hope it grows better there than it did on the other side. BTW, I got the mugs and they're terrific!! Thanks so much!! I love them!! Thank you soooo much!!!!

Wow!!! Grandpa Bob you have a lot of energy. You are always on the go!!! I have not gardened in years, But I would like to agian when we get some property here in the future. But yes we have had things try to go that were never intended to go do so. You have to be very careful where ya throw stuff. It all has the potential to grow into another plant! **Thanks again for filling me in on answering form my e-mail, I am right on top of it all now!**

Most other years I have had tomatoes, and a couple of years cantaloupe. Once I had a pumkin grow from the compost bin and through the fence. Made small pumpkins. I have had potato plants grow, but never have gotten fruit from them. I have a peach tree that grew from a discarded pit. It has peaches this year!!! About twenty of them, and the little tree is not five feet tall.

Tomato plants often come up if the fruit is discarded in the compost pile. The heat there is not enough to kill the seeds. also if a bird (or any other animal or even people) eats the fruit the seeds will pass through and are ready to grow into new plants. Our yard is full of voluntary plants and it is interesting to see what will come up. We have even had pecan and walnut trees start up as birds drop the nuts.

That is neat. that sounds about like what happens here around my home. I took out some of my live forevers and I pitched them over my fence. I still go behind my fence and weedeat and keep it all clened up. I forgot that last fall, I had pitched two of them over the fence. I went back there this year to do some yard work and cleanup and there they were. They were growing on top of the ground and they were huge.

Hi Grandpa Bob, I couple of months back i was cleaning the yard and notice this plant growing, just kidding around I told my daughter, hey is that weed,we didn't know what it was. After a couple of week we saw it was a sunflower, she told me that they don't grow around this time of year. It didn't get very big, I say around 4inches round. It finally die and than a couple of week after another grew. I've never planted anything for a sunflower to grow, we just don't know how it got there. It was very nice to see that. Have a great day.

yes i was cleaning my yard when I first moved in an found a hot peper plant an a rose tree that need alot of love an care you should of seen those big orgene colored blooms that rose tree finlay had took awhile but it was worth the wait

Hi there webeishere my dad is from slovenia and my dad did not know that he plant a tomamto in the garden and he planted tomato from one of my grandmothers seeds and know but my aunty had the seed and when my aunty told my dad he was so happy my grandmother is not here now she passed away i never met her either but its great he as something of his mum take care happy postings.

I just love veg that self seed! I've been a bit remiss this year in the veg department, what with everything else that's been going on, and if it were not for my self seeded tomatoes I would probably have none at all! I waited until they were all a decent height, then transplanted them to their proper places where they are cropping nicely. It's a bit of an adventure, because until the fruit form I've got no idea which variety is growing! I also get lots of potatoes growing where-ever they fancy. I always just leave them to get on with it and pull them up when they're ready. Why waste them when nature is willing to do the work on your behalf?!

Yup, give em a chance to grow and bear fruit. Youll never know what they will produce. It might be big tomatoes.

i have some ferns i have no idea how they got there (birds?) but they're beautiful,big plants now.

Stray plants? Sure! I found spinach once, and it really surprised me because it had grown so well. I pulled it out gently by the roots and replanted it in a better place, and I think we cooked spinach at least six times after that. I found some papaya plants too. And a really wonderful thing happened recently. Now, I dunno the English names of these veggies. But they are red leafy veggies, and the entire plant is cooked, except the roots. I found heaps of these plants! I had just tossed away an old, half rotten plant with a few seeds hanging to it, and they had actually sprouted. I was really delighted. You see, I love the strays just as much as I love the ones I plant. The strays are lovely surprises, and I love it when my garden surprises me like that. :) Cheers and happy mylotting

Thats wierd when stuff like that happens isn't it? Well one year we had planted cilantro, and it grows fast too, but the next year we didn't plant any, but we had some stray plants growing outside of the garden. We have raised garden beds made out of railroad ties, and the cilantro was growing on the outside of the garden, that was wierd, I don't think we used it tho.