| Melon family and tomato seeds can survive in a compost pile unless that pile gets to pretty high temperatures, 150 F plus, so you could have a cucumber, watermelon, muskmelon, squash or any other melon family member.
The sign of a good gardener is not a green thumb, it is brown knees.
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| We want pics! Love to hear these kind of stories!
"Those that throw mud, lose ground!" :>)
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| I have composting worms and spread the worm castings around my new plantings this year. I have volunteer tomatoes growing everywhere! I just pull them because with our winters, they won't produce fruit before frost. Have fun with your vine! |
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| To post a picture, you just click on the add attachment? link below the text box when you are creating a post. It isn't available in all forums but it is in this one. I try to avoid composting cantaloupe, watermellon, pumpkin and mature squash and cucumber seeds as they will survive the composting operation. I've have more than one volunteer tomato that has produced fruit in my garden. Sometimes they've done better than the ones I bought. I gardened all the time in PA with great success since I was about 10. Here in NC between the heat and the deer that roam freely into my backyard it has been a challenge. I did OK with tomatoes this year but nothing like what I produced as a kid or as an adult in my parents garden.
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