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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

In my newest compost pile, less than one year old; in the past week almost a 
dozen volunteer tomato plants have popped up, very close to each other.  I 
guess they are from some of the tyomatoes I picked and they rotted before 
they ripend -- I don't know?

I guess I'll find somewhere to transplant them.  The stalk s are actually 
thicker, and the leaves, healthier looking, than the plants I bought from the 
nursery.  They are only 3 - 4  inckes tall , so far.  I'll leave one or two 
in the compost pile, itself, and see what happens.

Myabe this is normal, but I've never had volunteer tomatoes from compost, 
before.  One year, I had a very nice crop of "small potatoes" from a compost 
pile; but never tomatoes.  Huh ???


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