Wasn't expecting anything to grow out from the kitchen compost heap, but here they are - 2 tomato seedlings! So why let them go to waste? Why not plant them and enjoy watching how they grow. No idea what type of tomato they will give, as I honestly can't remember all the difference verifies I've been consuming. They could also be from the complimentary salads food takeaway outlets give with barbeque over here, (the leftovers of which I later toss in the kitchen compost heap). So it's a total mystery what type of tomatoes I'll get... You never know, they could be something completely unexpected - like if they were hybrid tomatoes, as those are hardly ever like the parent plant. So it'll be fun watching their progress!
I've had that happen with tomatoes after I've put the compost around my roses, i pulled mine up but you can grow yours on and see what happens.
Got a little bit of a bad news regarding one of the tomato seedling - As I saw a bird pull it up and take it away. However this other one is doing fine - It even had a growth spurt during the night, as there was a thunderstorm here yesterday.
Years ago when we used to get sterilised manure from a Sewage place, we often got a whole forest of tomato seedlings.
Absolutely true, same use to happen with us whenever we got the same type of manure from KMC (Karachi Municipal Cooperation). Exactly like birds and other land animals, human digestive system too can disperse seeds into the environment like this. However I immediately stopped using such manure the moment I learned that the chemical hormones in the contraceptive pill - Also got passed out into the environment like this. Which plants too can absorb. So that's pretty harmful, specially if you're a guy. So from that day I switched to all natural vermicompost. It does cost a little extra, but I've found the results to be a lot better on my plants.
We stopped using sewage like that long before the pill was invented. The place which supplied it stopped doing bags of it and only sold it by the lorry load to Golf Clubs etc. Tomato seeds are designed by nature to germinate after passing through primates digestive systems.
Must be why I got tons of tomato plants after putting the compost from my worm bins in the garden. I just assumed the worms didn't eat them. What a wake up call, S-H. I live in an older home so I always use a filter for our water. But the filters don't filter, for that!
Well I honestly didn't expect this thread to turn into something like this... So I think I will soon start a new and different thread about such contamination in our drinking water and food supply - Basically share with everyone whatever I know, and how we could possibly fix it, (before the point of no return is upon us all). It's actually something which I had been worrying about (and fighting against) since a very long time now. But I never found people who were receptive to whatever I wanted to say - Thankfully that seems to have changed now. So worry not, as I will soon share everything I know about this, (in another thread that I'll start).
You know what the best part is? At least for me, when it comes to growing tomatoes? The smell of tomato plant leaves. They have a particular smell, which in my case triggers very happy memories from my early childhood. As tomatoes were one of the first few things I grew in the garden (with both my parents teaching me how to do everything). And guess what? I just looked at this Golden Dust Croton plant I have growing in a small pot - Now also has a lots of tomato seedlings growing. From the same batch of compost! Like here I was, wondering what type of tomato I'd get from this single mystery plant - Yet now I have so many more growing! I better get these transplanted today.
