That wild and crazy tomato.

[Worth1]

Last year in November I noticed a tomato plant growing in a dirt pile right in front of where my wife parks her truck.

I told my wife to put a bucket over it if it was was going to freeze.
The truck was parked over it at night.
The thing kept on trucking all through the winter.
I have learned something from it.
Now I know how I am going to raise tomatoes next year on a trial bases.

Here she is I have no idea what it is but it came from my garden last year.

What a beautiful plant to be so neglected.
It is loaded with tomatoes.
Worth
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[bughunter99]

It looks great! Volunteer tomatoes are so fun, you never know what you are going to get. Great looking cat too!


Stacy

[Daddy Pig]

Difficult to identify but I think from the last photo it's definitely of the variety "Felis Catus"

[Deborah]

Pretty cat. Name? Boy or girl?

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Deborah

Pretty cat. Name? Boy or girl?

Her name is Smokey.
Adopted from animal shelter.
Kills baby tomato plants.
Great mouser.
Good bed partner.
Friends with Boo Boo the Boxer Pit.
Comes in at dark every night.
Uses house for shortcut to get to the back yard.
The photo was taken after one of her lizard safaris (she thinks they are dinosaurs) in the butterfly vine.

Worth

[Deborah]

Cute ! Mine aren't allowed outside, but I grow kitty grass and they have rabbits for playmates.

[Sun City Linda]

Oh Worth your kitty is a looker and so is my 20LB kitty too only he is a tom. He comes in at night too and comes when he is called...mostly.

[Stvrob]

My daughter has been growing huge catnip plants. We have several cats around and they dont seem to have a clue whats growing right under their noses. She says she's gonna put it in baggies and sell it at the farmers market.
Anyway, for the cat lovers...Catnip is easy to grow and the cats just love it!

[Deborah]

Cats like chamomile flowers too. Some cats prefer and react to dried catnip over fresh.

[Tracydr]

Very nice and I love your kitty, too.
Ours became house cats last month when an idiot neighbor decided to shoot my black kitty in the belly with a pellet gun. He barely survived and was lost for several days, suffering in the backyard hidden under a bush while we searched for him. We had quite a time nursing him. Thanks goodness I spent a good deal of time in medical school practicing to be a vet with a small horse/cattle ranch and plenty of barn kitty's and dogs. I had enough experience to keep him hydrated, force fed, anal probed ( temp checks) and all the other nursing that he required to survive the ordeal. Also thanks to our wonderful, old-time vet who was able to bump half a days worth of patients and spend his day in the OR cleaning up his bowels/removing the pellet and repairing the damage.
Anyway, your kitty is lovely and looks very much like our oldest cat.

[Worth1]

Short story.
About 15 years ago in another town my neighbor bought their 10 year old a pellet gun for Christmas.
The day after Christmas the pellet gun looked like a horse shoe.
Seems I caught the boy shooting at my cat in my yard.
I was so mad I didn't say anything.
I walked up grabbed the gun wrapped it around a tree and told him to go get his mother.
He didn't get another gun.

Worth

[ddsack]

Thank you Worth, that was well done. Nothing makes me angrier than animal abuse.

About your tomato - what hearts were you growing last year? When it colors up, maybe you can narrow down the variety.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by ddsack

Thank you Worth, that was well done. Nothing makes me angrier than animal abuse.

About your tomato - what hearts were you growing last year? When it colors up, maybe you can narrow down the variety.

Dee I cant remember but I am going to take a wild guess and say Orange Russian is what it is.
I hope so.
For the life of me I have no idea how that seed made it down the drive germinated and ended up as this plant.
I never even got close to that dirt pile with a tomato and nobody around me grows much of anything.

I remember I found an Orange Russian in the drive eaten by a bird or squirrel.
I cut off the eaten part and let the seed land on the drive.
I ate the rest

It may have rained and the seed washed down the drive and floated on a small pond that forms there.
As the waster resided the seed was left to germinate.
Regardless of what kind it is I just about bet is washed down the drive to grow there.

Worth

[Worth1]

What this is telling me is may I need to start seeds in November not December.

We have lots of nice sunny warm days in the winter here and I am sure I can protect from the occasional freeze.

I dont even know when it sprouted I looked down one day and there it was about 12 inches tall.
It may have sprouted in October.


Worth

[Worth1]

Well the wild and crazy tomato turned out to be a heart tomato.
I have no idea which one but the darn thing is still doing great.
it have started setting fruit and one is blushing as we speak.
It has grown over the top of the 6 foot cage and back to the ground.
Don't know what it is but will save seeds.
A real winner this one is for sure.

Worth