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  1. 06-20-2008, 07:19 AM #1
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    Default we have 12 volunteer tomatoe plants along with the 6 we planted.

    dang if i had known this we would not have bought any. oh well we will give a bunch away i guess
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    18 tomato plants???

    I am so jealous!
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  3. 06-20-2008, 09:07 AM #3
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    Hm. Well, then you won't get salmonella from those tomatos!

    Sounds like you'll be making a lot of salsa...
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    Dang! We had an all tomato garden a few years ago. Dh was given 18 or 19 plants and I planted them all. I had my entire freezer full of tomatoes!

    I just had to pull 3 pepper plants that came out of no where. And of course, now aphids or something is putting holes in one of my peppers before I could spray it. So I'll be ticked if it doesn't live, becuase I pulled and gave the other plants away!
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    Gee the only thing I have growing that I didn't plat is palm trees. I don't even know where they came from.........
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    A word of advice about "volunteer" vegie plants...

    They are the ones you should keep and nuture. They are climatically adapted to the conditions in your garden. They are more likely to yield higher volumes of vegies because they are happy in your particular soil

    Save the seed from your volunteers and you will increase your future strike rates. A word of warning though: be very careful saving volunteer seed from brassicas (caulis, broccoli, chinese vegetables, turnips) unless you physically isolate the plant through a barrier of some kind (like shadecloth). They are very prone to crossing with other things in your garden, like wild turnip or wild radish. You'll end up with a bizarre plant that bears no vegetables.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fernykins View Post
    Gee the only thing I have growing that I didn't plat is palm trees. I don't even know where they came from.........
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    I planted 8, and we had 6 volunteers come up. I gave 2 to neighbor and 4 to a friend. I just noticed another one today.
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    thanks fo rthe info. i am really excited about so many, we have 3 kids adn 9 grandbabies , my dsil lives next door to us, and my mom lives about 20 miles away this year we will have plenty to give away, i hope
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