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No! No! No!
Unbridled rant forthcoming:

I gave my neighbour 3 tomato plants grown from side shoots. He didn't show much interest and bunged them in pots and left them in a rather Sunless spot but they prospered pretty much by themselves. I've kept a loving eye and chucked a bit of water their way over the fence when it was dry. They've put out fruit ( this late) and the bottom trusses have reddened nicely.
Today I came out to see him happily shoving the crumpled plants into a bin bag.
We've got at least another 3 frost free weeks here. They were doing great! P[lenty of nice green toms on them for chutney etc anyway. Wasted!
This is murder.

Lesson learnt - give any spare plants to the neighbour on the other side next year!

Or don't give them away at all !!

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Seeing as we've only recently got our plot we havent planted any toms this year, but we do have a lovely tomato plant growing inbetween the pavers of our back yard! I think the seed must have dropped there during one of our barbecues, its fruited with 5 toms on it, but not yet ripe, think it sprouted too late, but may well have to try using the green toms in some way!

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Suzanne (aka Mrs Dobby)

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Lucky you, had a self seeded sun flower in the middle of the bean row this year but most of the time it's just weeds with me.

Lol! Got plenty of them down the allotment thanks!

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Isn't it strange how the self-seeded plants always seem to do better than the ones you spend time and money on!!

I haven't bought sunflower seeds for years, but my border is full of lovely self-seeded plants in a range of colours. I always leave the heads on so the birds can help themselves to the seeds, and they seem to make sure they leave some on the soil to re-grow.

maybe he just didn't like tomtoes,but didn't want to upset you by saying no

I've got a lavendar plant growing between the patio slabs. I'm thinking of how to get it up without killing it, so I can pot it up and plant it somewhere next year. We've also had plenty of self-seeded nigella and poppies - also between patio slabs.

If you ease it out very gently Waffler (you may need a knife of something) you should still have plenty of root on it. However lavenders are a bit promiscuous and you may have something slightly different to what is in your own garden (if anything) depending on what else is in the vicinity. I've got little lavandula stoechas typs plants springing up self seeded this year. Never had anything off the angustifolia unless I take cuttings. Same with the dentata.

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Earthbabe
If at first you don't succeed, open a bottle of wine.

My neighbour & I often share plants & seeds, but hers nearly always grow better tham mine!!

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I gave toms to a neighbour and they just tossed them in the bin! Didn't even try growing them! Muppets...

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Didn't they realise that it would be less rude to politely refuse your offer than to accept then bin it? Seems a basic lack of manners to me.

my husband visits sewage works as part of his job and there is always lots of self set tomatoes with lots of red tomatoes on .........but nobody picks them dont know why!!

Quite!

I don't even understand why he did that. They were my side shoot cuttings. All the others are still giving me a steady supply. I gave him 3 because he said they had had no joy when they tried to grow em last year! I can't believe he just binned all the green toms. Think of the chutney!
I just don't get some people. His main joy in gardening seems to be the weeding but they never seem to understand which plants should go where to do best.

Honestly I feel like I proffered some puppies to good homes and found them drowned in a sack or something. ( note to self ' you're losing the plot.' Get out more)

But hey! isn't it nice to help someone, even though you might not get a thanks you? DDL

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Hello Pickledtink, I can understand why you feel as you do. I just think you have to accept that your neighbour doesn't share your values. My children laugh when I say I am glad everyone is not the same as me because if they were they would drive me MAD ! You enjoy your tomatoes and let your neighbour enjoy whatever is important to him.

Isn't this always the way.

I'm new to gardening and created a new bed in our new garden. I had visions of climbers with masses of Sunflowers in front so I bought 2 packs of seeds and planted them. Nothing happened. So I got 2 more packets and started them off inside, after planting them out we had a fantastic display masses of huge heads - just what I had visualised.

I was really looking forward to the mass of birds this would attract and to harvesting seed for both myself and the birds. And what do I discover the seeds I had bought were F1 so all the seeds are empty . No food, no feeding frenzy and to add insult to injury I've got to buy and plant more seeds next year. Aaaaaaaaaah .

Oh no! That's terrible. I've managed to grow 2 (!) lovely sunflowers, (from old seeds) having never grown them before. I was over the moon yesterday to go out and discover actual real sunflower seeds inside (like, what else what you get from a sunflower? Duh!) Llike you, I was planning on harvesting some for me and a few favoured individuals to grow next year, and the rest for the birds. I hope I don't run in to the same problem as you!

Incidentally, I have some more old sunflower seeds which I was going to put out for the birds (I had loads of old seeds and this particular variety didn't germinate at all) - is it ok to do that. The only reason I ask is because on the packs they say something along the lines of 'Plant. Don't eat', or words to that effect. It's surely not going to harm the birds is it?

Waffler, I know that feeling of excitement I did exactly the same, dinner plate size heads with all these lovely seeds. Except when I pulled one out and peeled it to eat - nothing . Oh well there is always next year.

My daughter planted sunflower seeds that she got out of cockatiel mix and for her effort she got some lovely sunflowers of differing sizes all with full seed heads.
Kirsty

I gave a number of strawberry plants to a neighbour with clear instructions. After sitting in a tray for a number of weeks they found their way into the green recycling bag. She's a bit weird anyway but I would have been less offended if she had simply said no.

They are supposed to be moving and giving the amount of ill feeling they seem to have created the sooner the better.

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Earthbabe
If at first you don't succeed, open a bottle of wine.

At least she put them in the recycle bag!