Free tomato plants

My mistake is your gain. Last fall I didn't clean up properly from our tomato harvest. We now have between 50-100 tomato plants growing in a little 4'x10' raised bed. Before we pull them up as weeds would anyone want some? It is a "mixed bag" sort of deal as last year I had cherry tomatoes, beefsteaks, and early girls. It is anyone's guess which plant is which.

Come with a trowel and something to carry the plants in and you are free to take as many as you want.

PM for address.


I am going out for awhile, but to any of the people who responded I have left some empty plastic pots in the garden bed in case you need something to put the tomatoes in to carry them home.


I spent most of the day out and don't get MOL messages on my phone, so my apologies for anyone I responded late to.  For everyone who messaged and hasn't come out yet, don't worry there are still TONS of tomato plants left.  We will be out again for most of tomorrow, but feel free to come by and grab some.


Still a ton of tomato plants available. PM for address if you want some.


Why don't I ever have this problem?


boomie said:

Why don't I ever have this problem?

I read up on how to grow tomato plants from seed and it is apparently complex, the seeds need to be fermented first, so I ended up not trying.  In a plot twist it seems that by not being good about cleaning up all the tomatoes that fell off the plant last summer (it produced so much that we couldn't keep up and some actually rotted on the vine) I inadvertently did the ferment thing the way that nature intended.  I'm not saying that this is a sure fire way to grow tomato plants, but it is worth trying with a tomato that you like the taste of.  A word of caution though, with hybrids you won't necessarily get the same plant as the one you let lay on the ground.


Yes I am doing less tomato plants this year but very selective with the seeds.


boomie said:

Yes I am doing less tomato plants this year but very selective with the seeds.

This year I only planted three tomatoes, all heirlooms.  Two are marzanos (similar to the ones that come in the plastic bags at Trader Joe's) and the third is a purple-ish one.  Thankfully I planted them in a different box than last year so there will be no confusing my planned plants from all the interlopers. oh oh 


One year I had some tomato plants growing out between the slats of my compost bin.



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