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Unexpected tomatoes
Timato
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in Fruit & veg
Hello all, I hope someone can help me, I have been growing runner beans in a raised bed for a number of years and use compost collected from peelings etc, This year I have 15-20 tomato plants and 1 potato plant that have sprung up from nowhere! I can only presume they have sprouted from the compost.
Does anybody think I should pull these out? Will they affect my bean crop? Or just leave them to it and see what happens? Your thoughts please.
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I had tomatoes all over a new flower bed which I had dug home made compost into. I pulled them all up.
But I have grown a few on in the past, however if they are from F1 hybrid plants they don't come true from seed.
I wouldn't leave them on the beans. If you want any then dig them up carefully and replant them somewhere else and see what happens.
Not only have I got last years missed potatoes coming up, I also have runner beans that have grown from dropped seeds. If they weren't in the Kale patch I'd be grateful.
Thanks everyone, I will leave a few in and see if they fruit.