I’m being invaded. I have no idea where the little blighters are coming from, but they are popping up in the weirdest places. Tomatoes. Everywhere. Think I’m kidding?
In the rosemary. Four of them.
Ficus/alligator plant
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The big ficus
In the butterfly bush, bold as brass.
And since I loaded the pictures into the computer, four more have popped up in the dracaena. Did I plant tomatoes this year? I did not. I have poor luck with this particular fruit, as some of you may recall, and I didn’t see the point in having my heart broken yet again. But here they are. Keep in mind, these plants call home a deck that is about 25 feet off the ground, and all but one has been in the same pot for over a year. Squish and the Padawan wouldn’t touch a tomato with a 10-foot pole, and the Princess of Darkness is just as bumfuzzled as I am.
Is there such a thing as a tomato fairy? And do they visit when you’ve been good, or when you’ve been bad?
Tune in next week when we ask “If spell-check thinks we can’t be bumfuzzled, are we bedazzlement or Fuzzbusters?”
Seriously? Bedazzlement? I am sad. I cannot live in a world where this is a suggested word.
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sj
May 29, 2012 at 9:03 am
Fuzzbusters!
(send me your tomatoes, I will give them a good home in my belly, I promise)
Kathy McClure
May 29, 2012 at 9:28 am
We call those things the helicopter plants and about three years ago they took over my yard, my limited garden and anything in a pot. It was just like an alien invasion and I was on full Triffid alert. They did this the next year as well, then they eased somewhat. I guess the helicopters migrated to your region because as of last year it’s just the same old thistles, dandelions and aggressive grasses.
readytochangenow
May 29, 2012 at 9:34 am
Lucky you!
Tiffany (lifewithblondie)
May 29, 2012 at 9:35 am
Hey, my grass just up and moved away. We never even saw her pack her bags, she just left one day and refuses to return!!
The Byronic Man
May 29, 2012 at 9:37 am
We had a tree blown down a couple years ago in a storm and the roots sprouted up new trees EVERYWHERE. For months, we could barely keep up. If we’d had the desire and the water supply, I’d be living in a forest right now.
Animalcouriers
May 29, 2012 at 9:50 am
If they are tomatoes, does your neighbour do well with them? Then they’re possibly a present from the birds who’ve enjoyed next door’s crop. With the added guano, they’re bound to do well
Roly
May 29, 2012 at 9:55 am
There is a plant that looks suspiciously like a tomato plant that has got many smokers in trouble.
Nicole Smeltzer
May 29, 2012 at 9:56 am
Do you compost?
We do, so we have all kind of tomatoes and squashes growing in our gardens this year. We only planted soybeans in the vegetable garden this year, but thanks to composting, we are growing tomatoes, garlic, onions, scallions, potatoes, and squashes. It’s funny. I’m glad there are tomatoes everywhere this year. Last year, the deer ate them all :/
Shannon
May 29, 2012 at 9:41 pm
This is where half of my plants come from. Compost volunteers are awesome. No work! Where the seed hits the ground, and the ground is good to go, so grows the plant, the plant goes to fruit, and I go to picking. Lazy gardening is totally my way.
muddledmom
May 29, 2012 at 10:29 am
We have something that I swear is fennel growing in a pot that we did not plant. My husband says it’s a weed. We’re letting it grow to see what it turns out to be. Isn’t that part of the fun of gardening? Of course, something will probably eat it before we get to find out.
MJ, Nonstepmom
May 29, 2012 at 11:28 am
I’m jealous, I cant get anything to grow…..
bedazzlement. Isnt there a gadget that “bedazzles” clothes ? Didnt know it was a real word !
Elyse
May 29, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Spell check is the devil’s instrument. Bedeviled never came up, did it?
Howlin' Mad Heather
May 29, 2012 at 2:23 pm
“Who you gonna call…PLANTBUSTERS!”
The Hobbler
May 29, 2012 at 4:37 pm
We get stuff popping up in weird places too. I wish the things I wanted to grow would do that.
Vaeru
May 29, 2012 at 7:28 pm
I have to ask, did you use compost in your planters? Or is it all store-bought soil? Because we had several ‘volunteer’ tomatoes last year from where we chucked the previous year’s plants.
Teresa Cleveland Wendel
May 29, 2012 at 11:45 pm
It seems like everyone, me included, is thinking compost.
I get cherry trees sprouting up everywhere from me and the boys spitting pits. (I live in a cherry growing region.)
2browndawgs
May 30, 2012 at 7:43 am
Maybe you should think about making spaghetti?
Angie Z.
May 30, 2012 at 2:44 pm
Noooooo! Never will I allow bedazzlement such legitimacy.
Is it possible you live under a tomato cloud? I assume that would be similar to a mushroom cloud.
whatimeant2say
May 30, 2012 at 7:03 pm
I LOVE fresh tomatoes. Wish you lived closer…
cassiebehle
June 1, 2012 at 5:31 pm
That’s fantastic! I haven’t had much luck with my tomatoes so far this year – I’m hoping they redeem themselves soon, but with the rainstorms we’ve been having, they just keep slowly drowning – just like my hopes that we’ll have tomatoes by the 4th of July…