How the hell did that get there?

[annie8]

Was weeding in the front garden last night and found this tomato growing in the middle of my cornflowers. No idea how it got there but it even has a truss coming on it. Bizarre.

[Ms-T]

Are you going to keep it. ?

[Mr Bones]

Bonus crop hope the toms are nice. We get lots of self set plants from our own compost but because we grow some F1 varieties the seedlings are hoiked out.

[Bren In Pots]

I find them popping up all over the garden especially in my GH they’re either from a fallen Tom or have been added to to the compost bin at some point.

[ameno]

From garden compost, probably.

I've had tomato seedlings coming up in my compost mulch all spring.
And I used a big sack of garden compost from home on my new asparagus bed at the allotment, and have had dozens of tomato seedlings and at least a dozen melon seedlings coming up in it since mid-April.
I saved the best three tomato seedlings and the best melon seedlings (all somehow survived the frost back in mid-May completely unscathed). The melon is bushing out nicely and has some male flowers coming (no female yet). The three tomatoes all have one truss of flowers open already, with more coming, even though the plants are only 8 inches tall. No idea what variety they are, but if they're flowering this early I should get at least something from them.

Tomatoes really do self-seed very easily, and they're pretty resilient plants. I always think that if it weren't for blight they probably would have escaped into the wild by now and become a relatively common weed.

[Penellype]

I've got tomato seedlings all over the place as well, thanks to putting rotten tomatoes in the compost bin (the seeds survive the hotbin at 60C). One of the places they are coming up is in the potato buckets. Some of the potato foliage got a bit nipped by the frost, but the tomato seedlings were fine!

[annie8]

Aah yes it’ll be the compost I put on the front earlier this year. I’ve had tomatoes and potatoes growing in and around the compost bin before but never at the front. Oh well guess I’ll just leave it and see what it does. Mind you will look a bit daft in the middle of the cornflowers.

[Nicos]

Funnily enough I've found self seeded plants like that thrive -often producing more crops than the ones I've carefully nurtured!

[bramble]

Aah yes it’ll be the compost I put on the front earlier this year. I’ve had tomatoes and potatoes growing in and around the compost bin before but never at the front. Oh well guess I’ll just leave it and see what it does. Mind you will look a bit daft in the middle of the cornflowers.

Like the petunia in the onion patch Annie.

[Plot70]

I chucked tomato and pepper seeds from supermarket fruits into a tray with kiwi and pomegranate. They all sprouted and the tomatoes and peppers have flowers.
I had peppers this way last year but the blight killed everything just before the fruits ripened.

[rary]

Funnily enough I've found self seeded plants like that thrive -often producing more crops than the ones I've carefully nurtured!

Possibly a lesson to be learned there Nicos

[annie8]

Just pulled out what I thought was weeds and turned out to be carrots among the flowers

[Mr Bones]

The best outdoor cuke plant we had last year was a self-set Marketmore that grew from lotty compost.

[Shortie]

I was reminded of this thread last night as I was stood amongst the onions cutting back a rose - glanced down and there was a lone, rogue tomato growing merrily away, along with small chard plants, haha