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Never till old tomatoes into the garden...

By: JMTKMS
May 07, 2012
This is the second year that we have hundreds of volunteer tomatoes wanting to come up in the main garden.  The first year we planted them in the main garden, and as the season ended, some tomatoes ended up staying in the garden... then the dirt was tilled an now we have tomatoes coming up faster than weeds.  I have left a few in place, so I can transplant a few to where some of the beans have died.  But, I will still need to pull out hundreds more.  Those seeds in those tomatoes are sure wanting to grow.  They were not heirloom, I do not really know what they were... poor things, now they are weeds.
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vanna516 replied about 1 year ago
Uh oh ... I would never have thought they would be coming up like that ...
JMTKMS replied about 1 year ago
@vanna516:  They come up in bunches, as tomatoes have alot of seeds close together, and they really are cute....  but, destructive if you try to keep them all.  
PYehl replied about 1 year ago
That is funny I was gonna post about the same thing the other day!  In my lettuce patch my worst weed is tomatoes!   When I make sauce I put it thru the victorio strainer - all that comes out is seeds & skin....  and I know I put it in the bin to take to the compost pile.  So the compost that ended up in the lettuce area must have had a good portion of that!  Lot of times I have tomatoes growing out of the compost bin in the summer as well!  =)
JMTKMS replied about 1 year ago
I fed all my tomato "left overs" to the pig...  So these are from tomatoes that fell and got tilled into the garden.  My new Tomato garden that I put in last year is covered with volunteers also.  It will be hard to tell what I planted, by seed, this year and what are volunteers.  When I planted the seeds in the ground this year, I was very careful t... pull any volunteers and just plant one seed in the center of my milk jug green house.  That way I should be able to be sure that the tomato I keep is the one I planted.  Crazy. 
Gene replied about 1 year ago
Yea, I've had the tomato issue before too. In general, it seems the smaller the tomato, the more "invasive" it is about coming back as a weed. My problem lately though is melon weeds... Watermelon and muskmelon to be exact - because, like you, I've been composting it. The real complication this poses for me is making sure I know which I planted and which is the weed so there's no confusion about what I'm growing....
JMTKMS replied about 1 year ago
@Gene:  That is the problem with the tomatoes also.  I tried to mark real clear where I planted my seeds... guess I will see in the end what i get.  :)

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