Volunteer plants!

barryla61 · June 23, 2012

My Mom told me a couple months ago that she had 2 volunteer tomato plants in her tractor tire "flower beds" and asked if wanted to transplant them. It kinda went in one ear and out the other and I forgot about them.
This past week she asked if we would stake her volunteer plants. I'm thinking maybe they're 18 inches tall and really leggy after all they're surrounded by flowers and competing for water and nutrients.
WRONG!!! These plants were nearly 4 feet tall with stems the size of my thumb!

They may turn out to be undesirable but I've always been enthused by "volunteers", it's like God wanted that plant to grow for a reason. Can't wait to see what they produce!

Here they are before being staked.

casserole · June 23, 2012

Pull those useless flowers out of there lol

VC Scott · June 23, 2012

My volunteer growing in the rose garden. I am pretty sure it is red brandywine.

volunteer.jpg

Kierkegaard · June 25, 2012

I'm letting about ten volunteers grow this year. Most of them are Brown Berry, I'm certain, but several have large fruits on them. One that I just left in the ground has had a gorgeous, biiig tomato for longer than any of my others had fruit set, and I'm really excited to see what color that turns.

June 23, 2012	#2
casserole Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Dousman, WI Z5 Posts: 95	Pull those useless flowers out of there lol

June 23, 2012	#3
VC Scott Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: San Marcos, CA Posts: 352	My volunteer growing in the rose garden. I am pretty sure it is red brandywine. volunteer.jpg

June 25, 2012	#4
Kierkegaard Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Tennessee Posts: 26	I'm letting about ten volunteers grow this year. Most of them are Brown Berry, I'm certain, but several have large fruits on them. One that I just left in the ground has had a gorgeous, biiig tomato for longer than any of my others had fruit set, and I'm really excited to see what color that turns.