Rogue tomatoes!

I have been using wormcastings on all new seedings in the garden; they seem to speed germination. I was puzzled by a couple of sprouts that came up where I thought I'd planted turnips; they looked a lot more like tomato plants. Yesterday I became convinced, they ARE tomato plants, and today I found mention mraider's blog of "rogue tomato seedlings" -- that's them!

They are such healthy little beasts, I'm thinking of letting them grow. Has anyone raised "rogues" before?

I always have rogues, and they are always cherry-type. This spring we got a load of topsoil and it's about two hundred feet from the vegetable garden. Sure enough, it is covered with tomato plants, and they are very nice cherry tomatoes!

What a terrific bonus.... I know when we get topsoil here, often you will find cherry tomatos or what the locals call "Tommy Toes".. They are tough and prolific too..

Carolyn

I call my rogues "compost tomatoes". Last year they were all a wierd sqaurish oblong type, larger than the grape tomatoes - big enough to fire roast on the grill. This year, I have my old compost tomatoes back, with the addition of one regular sized tomato plant - again with a five sided angular top near the stem. It came up in my perrenial bed, but I let it grow anyway. Haven't watered it once, but I'm still getting tomatoes off it. Not a bad bonus to the garden.