something weird is happening.

[lynda66]

yesterday, i found some dill(i think) growing in the line of carrots, i have planted some dill at the other end of the garden, but its nowhere near as big as this. i have also found a tomato growing in between some broccoli and cauli, which is nowhere near the tomatoes, and the tomatoes i planted are much bigger. i've found 2 melon type plants growing in my herb bed, that don't look anything like the other 5 types of similar plants I'm growing. and i have just found a parsnip growing next to my peas ....... i thought maybe it was boot transfer, but with the different sizes and having to walk over a lawn to get from one bed or the other, i don't think thats it, i did think about worm transfer, but i doubt one worm could hold it from one end of the garden to the other and i really can't think of anything else ........something very weird is happening

[amandaandherveg]

Slugs put the seeds into their little backpacks and move the around your garden under the cover of darkness.

[lynda66]

don't be silly, slugs can't carry backpacks



they haven't got any shoulders

[amandaandherveg]

Yes they can, they're called snails.

[scarey55]

Have you used home made compost?

I regularly find tomato plants in my flower beds... hang on, that wouldn't account for the parsnip though, unless you threw a bolted one in the compost bin last year.

Otherwise, nope you've got me stumped too

[Flummery]

Toms will come from your own compost like a shot.
Have you got a cat? They'll happily scrat around your seed beds and scatter stuff.

[HeyWayne]

I think there are some Marmoset gardeners in yoru area. They're like Guerilla gardeners only much smaller.

Edit: Look, here's one caught in the act...

[amandaandherveg]

So that was what I saw in my Catkin Tree!

[quark1]

What a sweetie - he does look rather determined though!

Choosing a template design for Baby Wayne are we?!

I wonder of the spread of seeds has come via bird droppings - probably not from your garden at all and transported until they can hold it in no longer.....sorry folks too much info I know!

[SlugLobber]

I think even the parsnip could have come from the compost, especially if you're one of those that has sown outdoors, like me and had poor germination!

Other than that, birds, slugs, ants...

...mind you, this isn't happening in my garden. Ooh! Get you, being all special!

[lynda66]

Have you used home made compost?

I regularly find tomato plants in my flower beds... hang on, that wouldn't account for the parsnip though, unless you threw a bolted one in the compost bin last year.

Otherwise, nope you've got me stumped too

only been growing veg this year, and never put old veg in the compost, it always went in my brown bin so nope can't be that

Toms will come from your own compost like a shot.
Have you got a cat? They'll happily scrat around your seed beds and scatter stuff.

i've got 2 cats, but none of the beds have been dug up, and they don't even walk on them, really, they prefer grass.

I think there are some Marmoset gardeners in your area. They're like Guerilla gardeners only much smaller.

Edit: Look, here's one caught in the act...

i'm liking that explanation

I wonder of the spread of seeds has come via bird droppings - probably not from your garden at all and transported until they can hold it in no longer.....sorry folks too much info I know!

i'm not sure about that i guess it may be a possibility, except that i don't know of anyone round here growing veg, and outside of our small area .... we're surrounded by terrace houses. so they must have come a very long way.

I think even the parsnip could have come from the compost, especially if you're one of those that has sown outdoors, like me and had poor germination!

Other than that, birds, slugs, ants...



...mind you, this isn't happening in my garden. Ooh! Get you, being all special!

unless they have come in the compost i've bought? it was all grow bags from wilkies, (apart from the crap that was full of weeds that i got from poundstretchers, that was only in one bed) cos deffo not from my heap, i just left the spaces empty where they didn't germinate, as they were in a bed with other stuff i didn't want to disturb. just seems an awful long way for little creatures to transport and plant them

was that special or SPesHuL

[Cloud]

May be you just lucky or unlucky which ever way you wanna look at it!

[lynda66]

well i'm not pulling them up yet, as none of them are in the way, i just thought it very odd .... but then everything i do is pretty odd, according to my neighbours, who all snigger at the front garden full of veg ....... but i'm gonna have the last laugh when they do their weekly shop, and have to carry the bags home, whilst i only have to visit the butchers and the garden

[SarzWix]

Did you sow any seeds into pots? And the pots which didn't germinate got thrown back into the compost bag?
I've done that before and the discarded, non-germinating seeds decided to pop up weeks later

[lynda66]

i sowed them in square fibre pots, placed in modules so they didn't lose their shape, then planted even the ones that didn't germinate out in their pots in the garden. so nope and the tomato popped up in a spot i didn't use compost from the heap or bag ..... a used a big pile of soil that has come from hedge trimmings and grass cuttings over the years, as everyone used to do this, as we live backing onto a redundant railway and a big patch of what used to be just grass and trees..