surprise tomatos!

[buzzingtalk]

today i was picking some salad leaves from my trays outdoors (have been outdoors since sowing with no protection) and amongst them are, i'm convinced, some tomato seedlings. They would be over a month old now, I am 100% sure they are as they smell and look the part. Just goes to prove they can survive outside, and I think I am going to pot a few of them on and see how they get along - no doubt they have been loving the warmth.

They have been in a busy seed tray, outdoors, in mostly shaded area.

Lovely surprise

[Newton]

How exiting.......please let us know what type they turn out to be.

[buzzingtalk]

They appear to be doing well I am going to pot a few of them up and see what happens. Although space is short as it is, but I am curious what they are, but how they got into my salad trays? I am sure I didn't sow my tomatos the same time as my salad.

[chris]

I've had carrots in salad sowings before, didn't realise until I was munching on the leaves and went to check

[buzzingtalk]

Brilliant!

[Flummery]

Keep them growing and take seeds from them at the end of the year - you could possibly produce a very hardy strain!

[buzzingtalk]

Oooh good idea Flummery - do toms cross pollinate? There are 3 (not counting the unknown ones) different varieties in my garden. i wil have to do that, sounds fun

[Flummery]

They can but rarely do. If you are growing a number of the beefsteak types you could get crossing but with the modern varieties all the sexual gubbins is enclose and it's the shaking of the plants that allows their own pollen to drop on to the receptors - bees, flies etc. can't get in.

[buzzingtalk]

Aaah OK. I have some gardener's delight, some cherry tumblers and some italian beefsteaks - but i could isolate this one tom plant away from the others, just in case. i am now curious to find out what it is!!

[chris]

Well keep us posted, I may well just have to send you an SAE

[buzzingtalk]

I shall be sending out my heritage norfolk tom seeds next year