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My wife and I have had vegetable gardens in the past with mixed results but last year a tomato plant grew in our main flower bed in the front yard all on it's own. This year another one grew even bigger and with probably 40 grape tomatoes. We didn't plant it or anything no fertilizer. I put some sticks to hold it straight but it has been challenging because that thing is like 7 feet tall and. We have eaten some of the tomatoes already. Isn't mother nature wonderful? Do you have one of those renegade and defiant vegetable plants at home?
I have a pitch pine and an oak establishing themselves in my beds. I am leaving them to grow (3 and 4 years now). I added 2 pitch pines to the lawn last year and will add another 2 this year. Encouraging nature to take things back..
We also get many volunteers. From birdseed slung into yard (ie: sunflowers) to the tomatoes, we only grow grape, and for trees, awww, more challenging. Some species wife has chosen are seed producers, and the saplings that develop want to grow in spaces not good for them.
Sometimes we are able to move them to a better space, other times I must sacrifice them for their own good.
NJBoy, if I had an oak decide to take up residence, I would make sure it had enough space to continue on! I would love to have some oaks here. Lucky you!
Enjoy the volunteers! We had some millet come up from bird seed this summer. Nice green foliage and so entertaining when a flock of gold finches discovers them.
I once had a cherry tomato come up in a sidewalk crack and it was the best tomato plant I ever had. I've been told tomatoes do better in poorer dirt, so that might explain how robust they are outside of the carefully tended beds.
I have oregano, chives, and tomatoes that come back in my garden bed in the spring. I am in zone 5b (-15* to -10* F). The first couple of years I started the bed I cleared it out on Thanksgiving, covered it in plastic, and put stones on it. I was shocked to see plants growing in April, plants that I didn’t know would grow back, especially without light, water, or air. Go figure. Nature.
In a very large pot that was filled with dirt, but had nothing I'd planted, about two dozen millet plants came up, from a mysterious source. They all put on big seed heads and when the birds decided they were ready, they ate them up in just a few hours.
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