"Janet" > wrote in message
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> In article >, says...
>>
>> "cshenk" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> "Janet" > wrote in message
>> >> ...
>> >> > In article >,
>> >> > says...
>> >> > >
>> >> >>"cshenk" > wrote in message
>> >> > > ...
>> >> >>> Ed Pawlowski wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>> >> > > >
>> >> >>>> On 4/16/2016 8:24 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>> >> > > > >
>> >> >>>> > Okay, lady. You can't/won't grow a garden. So don't.
>> >> >>>> >
>> >> >>>> > Jill
>> >> > > > >
>> >> > > > >
>> >> >>>> I had no intention of growing potatoes, but now after reading
>> >> this >>>> thread I feel obligated.
>> >> > > >
>> >> >>> Snicker!
>> >> > > >
>> >> >>> I have a bed of Jeruselem Artichokes at the side of the house.
>> >> They >>> are kept in control because they are bordered by a sidewalk
>> >> and a bunch >>> of brick underlayment.
>> >> > > >
>> >> >>> Now my container garden suffered a failure. We took a hard frost
>> >> late >>> for us just as some peppers and other things were sprouting.
>> >> Oh well. >>> I have time to replant them.
>> >> > > >
>> >> >>> We took the tomatoes in though to the laundry room on those 32F
>> >> and >>> below nights and they are fine and finally we seem past worry
>> >> on such >>> here.
>> >> > > >
>> >> >>> Want funny? We had some heirloom tomato gifts late last year.
>> >> We put >>> them at the front of the house. Some of the fruit was let
>> >> fall due to >>> ants and such nibbling it. We now have a baby
>> >> natural seeded tomato in >>> the flower garden. It's sheltering
>> >> behind a begonia but I bet the >>> begonia will lose the height
>> >> battle soon.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > You might be surprised at what you get! I did not realize that
>> >> > > you're not supposed to do that. It can encourage diseases and
>> >> > > somehow the seed can mutate.
>> >> >
>> >> > OFGS Julie, time to shut up before you reveal more stupidity.
>> >> >
>> >> > Janet UK
>> >>
>> >> http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussi...-from-last-yea
>> >> r-self-seeded
>> >>
>> >> Who's stupid now? I know it's a forum but I haven't got time to put
>> >> up another link. I have things to do. Buh bye.
>> >
>> > Good lord, how much google time do you waste looking for a negative
>> > reply on a tomato that self seeds like a normal plant?
>> >
>> > Julie, I like you but why are you so negative all the time?
>>
>> I spent like a second. I know I am right on this. I no longer have it
>> but
>> I used to have a very expensive book that was likely more than anyone
>> wants
>> to know about tomatoes.
>
> Wow, you think it's unusual to own gardening books?
>
> Unlike you, other people can read and understand books so don't throw
> them away.
>
> This is likely where I first learned that it is not
>> wise to self seed tomatoes.
>
> Didn't it teach you what an heirloom tomato is?
>
> But I have attended many lectures from master
>> gardeners and attended garden conventions.
>
> yet you still don't know the most basic plant biology.
>
>
> I know what I say is true. And
>> I have proven it. It's not negative. It's a fact. If you let the
>> tomato
>> self seed, the end result may be okay or it may not. Tomatoes are not
>> like
>> other seeds in this regard.
>
> Self fertilisation, cross fertilisation and hybridisation work exactly
> the same way in other seeds, you idiot.

That is *not* what I am talking about. I am specifically talking about self
seeding. As in letting a tomato fall, rot and then replant itself. Of
course you can do this and in my case it happened and I didn't even know it.
Heck an animal can poop out a seed and it might grow. But if the plant that
the seed came from had any sort of disease, then it will reoccur in
subsequent plants.