Volunteer Tomatoes Going Above and Beyond Expectations!
Last summer, I planted a type of cherry tomato---I don't recall its name. I also planted "Sweet Olive" grape tomatoes, another type of cherry tomato. Several of each got knocked or wind-blown to the ground; by the end of the season; they were bruised and cracked, and so I left them there, thinking they'd contribute something organic to the soil.
They did. Seeds.
And those seeds came up as young volunteer tomato plants this spring.
Now, y'all might call me a liar or at least mistaken, but I vow and declare those two plants were both labeled as varieties of cherry tomatoes.
Yesterday afternoon, I harvested these from the "generic" volunteer cherry tomato vine [see photos.]
A U.S. 25-cent piece is included as a comparative measure.
Oh, and I swear nothing's been done to these images: they're unaltered and appear here just as I snapped them with the camera. (And the black-looking spot is dirt, not disease and the dark areas in the second image are solely due to shadows and are not bruising.)
(Cross-posted to my journal.)
They did. Seeds.
And those seeds came up as young volunteer tomato plants this spring.
Now, y'all might call me a liar or at least mistaken, but I vow and declare those two plants were both labeled as varieties of cherry tomatoes.
Yesterday afternoon, I harvested these from the "generic" volunteer cherry tomato vine [see photos.]
A U.S. 25-cent piece is included as a comparative measure.
Oh, and I swear nothing's been done to these images: they're unaltered and appear here just as I snapped them with the camera. (And the black-looking spot is dirt, not disease and the dark areas in the second image are solely due to shadows and are not bruising.)
(Cross-posted to my journal.)