Well I never!

[Florence Fennel]

I repotted my Bay Tree last Autumn because it was pot bound, into a much larger pot, with a mix of bought and my own compost. It really took a battering (as lots of others did on here) and looked as though it was dead. Because I thought it might need time to recover this spring, I sowed some dahlia seeds around it, thinking I would have a bit of colour if it didn't make it. It died I'm afraid, but as well as the dahlias springing up, there are 3 very healthy tomato plants (looking much better than my poorly ones in tubs) and 2 huge and I mean huge sunflowers. Nature and the contents of my compost never ceases to amaze me.

[scarey55]

Poor bay tree, sorry to hear that but I have the same "problem", I have a huge tomato plant that has sprung up in my compost bin and, as you say, it is healthier than anything I grew from seed much earlier in the year. I have also just noticed some kind of cucurbrit that has also sprung up - ain't nature a wonderful thing

[FionaH]

I have toms popping up all over the place from my compost

[Florence Fennel]

The other wonder is that I haven't composted tomatoes for two years and I've "weeded" loads from my carrot bed that I filled up back in the Autumn.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Tomato seed, one of the few seeds to pass through the human body and remain viable, wonderful nature.

Colin

[Florence Fennel]

Thanks for implanting that thought Colin!

[Creemteez]

I've got Jack O' Lantern pumpkins coming up all ow'er. Have left some of the ones that have popped up in my bean beds. Bonus crops! There is also a self sown tomato in with the sweetcorn, wallflowers among the lettuce and french marigolds sprinkled through-out. Love it when something comes up that you haven't planted but is obviously not a weed!

[taff]

Tomato seed, one of the few seeds to pass through the human body and remain viable, wonderful nature.

Colin

I've heard of weeing in the compost but never that one!

[Zenithtb]

I have a 'cute' story to add here I planted one of those grid thingies and let it dry out (oops!). Completely forgot about it.

Wanted to grow some stuff (about 6 months later) and had this grid thingie with compost already in it. Great! I thought. Sowed my seeds and waited...

And waited...

Then I got a sunflower, plus tomato. And a beetroot, plus tomato. And a pepper, plus tomato!

I'd obviously planted a thingie of tomatoes, forgotten about it. Yet when I kept it watered they all came true!

Separated all the the plants, and this is one reason I now have 150 tomato plants

[Florence Fennel]

I've potted up the 2 or 3 tomatoes from the bay tree tub to see what happens. They might be my compensation for drowning all my cultivated toms!

[Potstubsdustbins]

I've heard of weeing in the compost but never that one!

You have obviously never lived near a sewage works, this time of year they can be covered in toms.

Colin