Re: Garden Surprises

Hi Pam and everyone,
Garden surprises can be fun. This year I had lovely red petunias popping up 
all over the veggie garden. At first I started transplanting them, but they 
didn't take to that too well, so I have left the rest and have bits of 
color among the green veggies.

People often say that tomato volunteers are never good, but I usually let 
mine grow if I have the space available, at least until they produce their 
first fruit, and then make a decision. I did rip two volunteers out this 
year for lack of taste, but three of my tomato volunteers were among my 
best tasting toms and healthiest plants this year: Sun Gold, Sweet 
Millions, and Roma.

Also I had a couple of fennel (the veggie, not the herb) volunteers in the 
garden this year. I've let one of them go to seed and it has produced 
thousands of seed for next year.

Did anyone else have any fun and delicious garden surpises this year?

May all your weeds be edible,
Pat


At 06:42 PM 9/26/01 -0400, you wrote:
>A nice surprise - I had some sort of melon growing in my compost heap and
>didn't have the heart to pull it out.  So it grew into a big vine with three
>canteloupes on it.  I don't even remember buying canteloupe this year, so I
>have no idea how the seeds made it there.  Our season's just about done
>here, and I just picked the first ripe melon.  It was delicious!
>
>Pam
>pkock@one.net
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