Found Tomato Plants in Public Spaces

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Anyone else find tomatoes growing “wild” when out and about? Some notable ones I’ve found were volunteers growing on my base in Iraq, in my parking lot at work, through a crack in the sidewalk near a Mexican restaurant and most recently in my grocery store parking lot. It was already way too hot for the Iraq plant to set fruit. I took a big beefsteak off of the plant in my work parking lot and have grown it out and saved seeds although they are unremarkable; typical commercial variety. I pulled up and transplanted the sidewalk plant and have seeds from that as well. Again, unremarkable commercial Roma type. The latest one at the grocery store is a very large and productive cherry type growing out from a patch of gravel. I’ll grab a few fruits and save seeds when they mature. If nothing else, it is impressive that it’s as large and productive as most cared for plants and as far as I can tell, no one has ever done anything for it.