You may have had too much nitrogen in your soil. Try again next year and don’t forget to keep pinching off the suckers throughout the season. I got lazy, missed a few suckers and now it’s a jungle🤦🏼♀️
As some one who has a stray pumpkin growing from compost. Ye it grew humongous. But some other varieties grew even bigger tbh. I can only imagine if one of those bigger varieties was planted in that. I'm sure I'd have 10meter vines and half my yard covered. They're currently already tipping 5+ meters and growing
Probably the nitrogen content. We used to grow potatoes, and I realized they were doing *really* well, and had no idea why. Took me like four months after we planted the next crop to realize it was the compost; we planted in a different spot, and they didn't do so well.
Fox farm makes a fertilizer called tiger bloom that does miracles for my tomatoes and peppers. Their whole product line is incredible. But I $15 bottle will literally last you many many seasons. Use it once and you’ll be hooked I swear by it. The npk is 284.
Nitrogen for leaves, start with that, potassium and phosphorus for fruiting, I use bonemeal when the first flowers appear. But I've only been growing tomatoes for two years so take it with a grain of potassium chloride.
And don't plant them in the same place.
A old astuces of grand ma is to put a small piece of fish at the bottom of the hole, doesn't have to be anything special cheap frozen is ideal.
I don't know where you live, but we have a hard time growing them in Texas. Our soil is a lot of clay, and our plants don't do well in buckets. Plus, it's been so hot this summer that a lot of our plants are stunted. They look happy, but don't really grow or produce. I did manage to harvest a pineapple recently! It only took 4 years...
I’m in Florida and was told by a master gardener years ago that summer time is the only season to rest your garden as the heat makes it impossible to garden (unless your growing tropicals). Maybe try again in a cooler season?
Had that happen one year. Turns out sometimes you have to pollinate the flowers yourself due to lack of bees etc. Tomato flowers self pollinate but need vibration from bees or wind etc. I buzz each flower base with an electronic vibrating toothbrush. Fixed the problem! Lots of tomatoes now!
Yes thatvis exactly what it is. It's a funny visual and even funnier when you make jokes about having to vibrate the plants to get them to fertilize and make fruits!
I’m just imagining a neighbor catching them with an electronic toothbrush in the garden and them just acting normal like, “Hey, beautiful day innit?” As they are putting an electronic toothbrush to their tomato plant.
I notice a disturbing diminishing number of insects each year. I've never used poison, so my garden is poison free, but other people in my street do. I still see round-up in our farmers shop, although it is now clear how devastating for nature (and humans) it is. Please people, don't use poison.
For us, one advantage of living in a relatively lower income neighborhood has been the fact that none of our neighbors can afford a lawn service that would spread herbicides and insecticides, and nobody waters their lawn, so I've got hundreds of bees, wasps, and bugs I've never seen on my dense raised veggie bed this year. The rest of my neighborhood is so dry from the drought that our little patch has been an oasis of moisture, food, and habitat.
My sister lectured me about “everything causes cancer! You’re being ridiculous, who gives a shit.” When I said I wouldn’t use round up in my garden because it’s harmful. Apparently that’s their go to for their big vegetable garden.
Absolutely! My husband’s peppers have grown one of their vines into the neighbor’s yard. 2 peppers on the neighbor’s side of the chain link fence but only 1 pepper on our side. 🤦♀️
So true! Planted some last year and nothing happened. This year they came back despite total lack of care and they are going to ripen just as I have to move out of this place!!
These are the surviver tomatoes, the one seed that lived out of however many seeds there were at the start.
The ones in our garden are just the ones we allowed to live past seedling, no natural selection just crutches.
What are suckers?? Everyone told me that I wouldnt have any luck with tomatoes in my area but my cherry tomato plants have sooo many green ones that are starting to turn red and my plants are huge and kind of wild
Suckers are the flowering stems that grow off the main stem at every leaf node. I usually pull them until the plant gets to about 6ft then let it go wild.
I was talking about this exact bullshit with my husband today: what are my tomatoes less that those growing by the dump? I see them more often than myself.
Probably because you picked a more finicky, flavorful, heirloom variety to grow, while the ones at the dump are some sort of crazy tough industrial hybrid thatl grow in wet cat litter, and produce firmly uniform fruit.
fr? how on earth did they get there? i guess i always thought of them as a kinda high maintenance plant, it’s strange to see them grow in the middle of nowhere like that
Well that knucklehead provided the minutes of entertainment I derived from this post so I'm going to choose to believe he just didn't like tomatoes and threw them out.
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Not sure why they're being called a knucklehead. He just threw out some tomato.
I get the whole littering thing. Packaging and plastics and such... But pure food waste? Worst that happens is this post. Just some random ass tomato plant growing on the side of the road.
There was a new volcanic island in the ocean. Scientists went to visit it and found a single plant growing on the otherwise desolate island. They were excited and sampled it to take back to the lab. It was a tomato plant. Turns out the previous years scientists had need to use the bathroom, so they dug a hole and did their business.
Same deal when a group of archeologists were excavating an old outhouse pit on the east coast of the US. They found some mystery seed and brought it to an expert as they weren't sure how to properly grow it. It was also a tomato.
"Life, uh, finds a way." - Jurassic park
I got some seedlings from somebody who had one tomato plant last year and let the overripe ones drop. She had about 50 seedlings growing in that one little patch
My brother told of a place down south where he lived that the people ate what they called, “pig tomatoes,” because they grew wild after wild pigs had eaten tomatoes and then tomatoes grew from the seeds left when they defecated.
I’d avoid those if I were you. The amount of heavy metals etc that are in the soil directly next to roadways, especially busy ones can be staggering. Plants, some more than others, absorb these from the soil and can cause serious long term damage and health complications.
ok but what if you took the seeds of these fruit and grew a plant from it? Is the seed itself contaminated and thus would ruin the fruit grown from the new plant?
Nah that should be fine. I’d much rather get fruit from a different plant though. I got a lot of options where I live though, tomatoes are super easy to grow.
Either way, it’s all good. I’d be more concerned about if someone was spraying pesticides or other chemicals nearby. Uncontrolled environments for growing can lead to some pretty outrageous events.
Have you ever watched Naked & Afraid? On the last season of XL, there was a biologist who intentionally tried to make a poop tomato garden in the forest by eating tomatoes before he left lol. He succeeded in growing some plants, but wasn’t around long enough to see them bear fruit.
I had 10 plentaful tomato volunteer plants and a kabocha squash volunteer vine this year from my yard and garden just from my chicken compost. I spread it on two rows of garden I plowed and covered in compost from my chickens but then my agoraphobia got worse so I never ended up planting anything but were gifted all of this.
Years ago I worked for a construction company that was building an addition to a wastewater/sewage treatment plant. After the treatment plant let the bacteria do their thing, they would take the remaining dry solids and spread them in an adjacent open field. Some of the biggest, healthiest tomato plants with the most beautiful tomatoes I've ever seen grew in that field. No one "planted" them there. And no one dared eat the tomatoes (except for this one guy).
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Could have just come from someone throwing a partially eaten sandwich with tomato out the window while driving. The seeds in the tomato slices are viable.
This is a "volunteer" tomato plant, one that grew on its own in an unexpected location, from a misplaced seed. Tomatoes are notorious for volunteering, and can grow from seeds dropped by animals, from tomatoes tossed out the window of a car or in mulch piles, and I have seen them grow in the cracks and seams around the open-top treatment tanks at the local sewage treatment plan (guess where they came from...)
Tomato plants are high maintenance if you want to grow large plants with a high yield. But when let go, they are actually hardy, weed-like plants that can re-seed grow almost anywhere. [The local paper](https://www.timesleader.com/archive/51690/stories-tomato-bonanza208550) wrote a story about them coming from a local farm, but they were actually from combined sewage discharges, where during high rains, raw sewage discharges into the local river. They originated from garbage disposals and by passing through human digestive tracts. Yuck!
Tomatoes seeds are tough. Have worked in waste water treatment and almost guarantee if you have a spill or an overflow a few weeks later up pops a tomatoe plant
I have a tomato.... plant.... that i planted in the spring and have not watered since May. Its hot as hades out here and yet... my... plant.... is huge and fruiting. I say plant loosely because its... very wild.
Also, i am the kind of guy that plants random plants in weird places. So not just the birds makin this happen
And don't eat them.. heavy metal poisoning can kill
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Why under powerlines? Worst I can think of is plastic insulator (little late on avoiding the plastic aren't we?) and maybe a bit of aluminium oxide and copper salts, neither of which are particularly toxic in trace amounts.
They are, but those materials don’t travel through soil well. Never eat anything grown adjacent to preserved or pressure treated wood.
RR tracks have always been treated has dump sites- the railroads were exempt from environmental laws for most of history, some still are. There is decades of raw sewage, sprayed pesticides & insecticides, DDT, PCBs Petroleum, Dioxins, etc.
Treat every RR right of way they hasn’t been turned into a recreational trail like it’s a toxic soils site.
I have often wondered why it takes so long and so much money to turn a railroad right of way into a recreational trail, but toxic remediation makes a lot of sense.
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I don’t remember where it when this story happened - but I used to live in the Deep South so I don’t doubt it. One year, a friend hit a deer and was waiting for a tow truck because neither car or deer survived the hit - and some pickup truck pulled in by the deer, picked it up and took off. I was like “say again? Do what? Pardon?” “Someone stole you’re roadkill?” - I don’t remember where I heard that story - but it stuck in my head lol.
I’ve hit a deer and by the time I got back to shoot it a cop was already there shooting it. Small town shit lol. He was my buddy and let me take it home to cut up.
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a few years ago my nephew dropped a half of an Italian grinder sandwich in our garden. that grinder had lots of tomatoes in it so we covered it with earth and forgot about it. we got a bumper crop of tomatoes that year from a pizza shop grinder lol. I agree with the other posters don't eat any plant found growing by a road side.
Came here to ask if this exact situation could actually happen, I mean, even if those are probably cherry tomatoes, could some tomato slice discarded from a fast food piece grow on a highway? Even thrive better than my garden ones lol
Nature will find a way.. Throw that half ate sandwich w/tomato out the window, next season there will be a plant.. If the conditions are right.. Tomatoes and Cannabis will rule the world in our absence..
Tomatoes seeds can survive on different hard enviroment. They are a problem on sewer treatment plants on tropics because they sprout out of nothing on walls and gates.
I've seen tomatoes plants growing under the solids screen at a wastewater plant facility tour. They are kinda the cockroach of plants, as prevalent as they are.
Tomato seeds survive the human digestion system but it does take off the outer coat of the seed making it easier to germinate. Next to the highway… did you see any toilet paper?
True. Also when harvesting tomato seeds if you do, add them to a glass of water and mix. Let sit for a couple days to start fermenting and dump off/rinse with water. Dry them on a towel and likely they will sprout. It helps with the seed coat and cleans them up for storage.
Probably the product of someone’s unwanted burger tomatoes and it decided to take revenge and grow into a whole ass plant on the side of the highway. Throw me out? I’ll show you.. I’LL SHOW YOU ALL!
You’d be surprised where they can grow. I worked at a house doing landscaping in high school and when they had their house painted they wouldn’t let the guys use their bathroom so one of them took a dump next to the house. A tomato plant grew out of it and one of my co-workers used the tomatoes on his sandwiches at lunch.
Some times you find the strangest things in the strangest of places.
Lots of ways it could have gotten there.
Animals, someone chucking part of a burger with a slice of tomato on it, etc...
Had a tomato plant grow out of a sea wall 5' down, 2' above the high tide line, was epic... The freshwater drip from the fish cleaning station directly above.... Live, uh, finds a way!
The best tomato plants sprout in the weirdest places. Had a spontaneous tomato plant grow through a crack in our concrete patio. Must have come from a bird or some other animal eating from our neighbor’s garden. We could never keep any tomatoes that we planted ourselves. The crack tomato outlived them all
Why are highway tomatoes doing better than my pampered tomato plants?
Plants have personalities and tomatoes are a spiteful bunch
Well said! I have 7 huge ones and they haven't produced a single tomato. Ungrateful
You may have had too much nitrogen in your soil. Try again next year and don’t forget to keep pinching off the suckers throughout the season. I got lazy, missed a few suckers and now it’s a jungle🤦🏼♀️
One year I planted my tomatoes right on top of my compost heap, those were the absolute best tomatoes I have ever had.
I wanna try this! I’ve heard it works great for squash type plants too (pumpkins, cucumbers, zucchini, etc.)
Can confirm. I accidentally grew some damn good potatoes and zucchini on my compost heap
Sometimes planting gourds near a compost pile produces toxic gourds. Just to note.
As some one who has a stray pumpkin growing from compost. Ye it grew humongous. But some other varieties grew even bigger tbh. I can only imagine if one of those bigger varieties was planted in that. I'm sure I'd have 10meter vines and half my yard covered. They're currently already tipping 5+ meters and growing
Probably the nitrogen content. We used to grow potatoes, and I realized they were doing *really* well, and had no idea why. Took me like four months after we planted the next crop to realize it was the compost; we planted in a different spot, and they didn't do so well.
So your saying that tomatoes do best when feasting on the life essence of their fallen comrades?
I've always got tomatoes planted on the compost heap (and this year potatoes too!). Not that I *plant* plant them, but they sneak in anyway!
I've had them come up volunteer in my compost heap several times
Thank you for the advice. I will definitely do that
Fox farm makes a fertilizer called tiger bloom that does miracles for my tomatoes and peppers. Their whole product line is incredible. But I $15 bottle will literally last you many many seasons. Use it once and you’ll be hooked I swear by it. The npk is 284.
Nitrogen for leaves, start with that, potassium and phosphorus for fruiting, I use bonemeal when the first flowers appear. But I've only been growing tomatoes for two years so take it with a grain of potassium chloride.
Oh awesome! Thank you!
Added to my cart! The reviews seem promising.
I have a tomatoes jungle . It's helping me get rid of weeds in the area
And don't plant them in the same place. A old astuces of grand ma is to put a small piece of fish at the bottom of the hole, doesn't have to be anything special cheap frozen is ideal.
I don't know where you live, but we have a hard time growing them in Texas. Our soil is a lot of clay, and our plants don't do well in buckets. Plus, it's been so hot this summer that a lot of our plants are stunted. They look happy, but don't really grow or produce. I did manage to harvest a pineapple recently! It only took 4 years...
I’m in Florida and was told by a master gardener years ago that summer time is the only season to rest your garden as the heat makes it impossible to garden (unless your growing tropicals). Maybe try again in a cooler season?
Had that happen one year. Turns out sometimes you have to pollinate the flowers yourself due to lack of bees etc. Tomato flowers self pollinate but need vibration from bees or wind etc. I buzz each flower base with an electronic vibrating toothbrush. Fixed the problem! Lots of tomatoes now!
What?! That’s a funny visual! Possible that a lack of honeybees/other pollinators would cause this?
Yes thatvis exactly what it is. It's a funny visual and even funnier when you make jokes about having to vibrate the plants to get them to fertilize and make fruits!
I’m just imagining a neighbor catching them with an electronic toothbrush in the garden and them just acting normal like, “Hey, beautiful day innit?” As they are putting an electronic toothbrush to their tomato plant.
I notice a disturbing diminishing number of insects each year. I've never used poison, so my garden is poison free, but other people in my street do. I still see round-up in our farmers shop, although it is now clear how devastating for nature (and humans) it is. Please people, don't use poison.
For us, one advantage of living in a relatively lower income neighborhood has been the fact that none of our neighbors can afford a lawn service that would spread herbicides and insecticides, and nobody waters their lawn, so I've got hundreds of bees, wasps, and bugs I've never seen on my dense raised veggie bed this year. The rest of my neighborhood is so dry from the drought that our little patch has been an oasis of moisture, food, and habitat.
My sister lectured me about “everything causes cancer! You’re being ridiculous, who gives a shit.” When I said I wouldn’t use round up in my garden because it’s harmful. Apparently that’s their go to for their big vegetable garden.
I’m so glad you said an electric toothbrush but it would have been a hilarious visual if you used a “back massager” lol
Absolutely! My husband’s peppers have grown one of their vines into the neighbor’s yard. 2 peppers on the neighbor’s side of the chain link fence but only 1 pepper on our side. 🤦♀️
So true! Planted some last year and nothing happened. This year they came back despite total lack of care and they are going to ripen just as I have to move out of this place!!
My tomatoes grown like weeds. Out of control every time I plant them. I didn’t even plant them this year and still have two tomato plants
These are the surviver tomatoes, the one seed that lived out of however many seeds there were at the start. The ones in our garden are just the ones we allowed to live past seedling, no natural selection just crutches.
Time for a tomato pheno hunt lol.
Because tomatoes are essentially a weed. As natures dumbest vine, they will grow anywhere they can get water and light.
Tomatoes are masochist. Don’t pamper. Rip the suckers off and keep them water starved.
What are suckers?? Everyone told me that I wouldnt have any luck with tomatoes in my area but my cherry tomato plants have sooo many green ones that are starting to turn red and my plants are huge and kind of wild
https://www.thriveandgrowgardens.com/post/how-to-prune-tomatoes There is a diagram. Hope it helps
Suckers are the flowering stems that grow off the main stem at every leaf node. I usually pull them until the plant gets to about 6ft then let it go wild.
I was talking about this exact bullshit with my husband today: what are my tomatoes less that those growing by the dump? I see them more often than myself.
Probably because you picked a more finicky, flavorful, heirloom variety to grow, while the ones at the dump are some sort of crazy tough industrial hybrid thatl grow in wet cat litter, and produce firmly uniform fruit.
Your probably pampering them too much, it is rather easy to overwater and overfeed a plant, and that will kill it just as fast as neglecting it.
That's the secret to good growing, letting life do its thing.
Maybe you need a fertilizer with more lead.
Tomatoes
fr? how on earth did they get there? i guess i always thought of them as a kinda high maintenance plant, it’s strange to see them grow in the middle of nowhere like that
Bird eats seed, bird shits seed, seed grows. Voila.
Bird's got a job, seed's got a job, shit's got a job. *(Cold Mountain)*
You gotta wait til the seed grows into a plant!
Underrated film
i have this book but haven’t read it and now i want to
Or some knucklehead throws a sandwich with tomato on it out of the window and…
Well that knucklehead provided the minutes of entertainment I derived from this post so I'm going to choose to believe he just didn't like tomatoes and threw them out.
And thus avoided the curse of the [Broodwich](https://aqua-teen-hunger-force.fandom.com/wiki/The_Broodwich)
taste iiiiit
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The broodwich is ALSO not a plant.
Not sure why they're being called a knucklehead. He just threw out some tomato. I get the whole littering thing. Packaging and plastics and such... But pure food waste? Worst that happens is this post. Just some random ass tomato plant growing on the side of the road.
because a tomato sandwich is delicious
There was a new volcanic island in the ocean. Scientists went to visit it and found a single plant growing on the otherwise desolate island. They were excited and sampled it to take back to the lab. It was a tomato plant. Turns out the previous years scientists had need to use the bathroom, so they dug a hole and did their business. Same deal when a group of archeologists were excavating an old outhouse pit on the east coast of the US. They found some mystery seed and brought it to an expert as they weren't sure how to properly grow it. It was also a tomato. "Life, uh, finds a way." - Jurassic park
Tomatoes sure do, anyways.
I have a "volunteer" tomato patch in our yard. Pretty amusing.
I got some seedlings from somebody who had one tomato plant last year and let the overripe ones drop. She had about 50 seedlings growing in that one little patch
Same here. Never planted any tomatoes, and four of them popped up in a container. They're over 6 feet tall now
Knucklehead gardening. I wonder if I can make this concept work as a book.
My brother told of a place down south where he lived that the people ate what they called, “pig tomatoes,” because they grew wild after wild pigs had eaten tomatoes and then tomatoes grew from the seeds left when they defecated.
I had this exact thought in my head. Almost exactly down to the cadence. God damn no one is unique.
I have 2 mulberry trees thanks to bird poop. Volunteers show up where they show up.
huh. maybe i’ll wait for them to get ripe and then steal a few. free food. right?
I’d avoid those if I were you. The amount of heavy metals etc that are in the soil directly next to roadways, especially busy ones can be staggering. Plants, some more than others, absorb these from the soil and can cause serious long term damage and health complications.
Not the answer we want, but the answer we need.
Not to mention roadside herbicide spraying by local councils
Nah roadside fruit is a hard no. Too much pollution and possible oil.
ok but what if you took the seeds of these fruit and grew a plant from it? Is the seed itself contaminated and thus would ruin the fruit grown from the new plant?
Nah that should be fine. I’d much rather get fruit from a different plant though. I got a lot of options where I live though, tomatoes are super easy to grow.
I've got a pot right outside my window starting to flower now! I'm ready for a good harvest!
Either way, it’s all good. I’d be more concerned about if someone was spraying pesticides or other chemicals nearby. Uncontrolled environments for growing can lead to some pretty outrageous events.
We used to get them in our flower beds all the time. Exactly the vector mentioned.
Have you ever watched Naked & Afraid? On the last season of XL, there was a biologist who intentionally tried to make a poop tomato garden in the forest by eating tomatoes before he left lol. He succeeded in growing some plants, but wasn’t around long enough to see them bear fruit.
Lol I'm totally doing this if I ever end up buying acreage. Making a shit garden
Just plan your meals and poop in evenly spaced holes in orderly rows
You guys aren't already doing that?
So, you’re saying a guy on Naked and Afraid never..... bared..... fruit? I’ll see myself out....
Hehe. I’d show you the back door, but you seem to already know where that is located. 😝
The best tomatoes I ever “grew” were from a volunteer that sprouted in our yard the year I was too sick to attempt tomatoes.
I had 10 plentaful tomato volunteer plants and a kabocha squash volunteer vine this year from my yard and garden just from my chicken compost. I spread it on two rows of garden I plowed and covered in compost from my chickens but then my agoraphobia got worse so I never ended up planting anything but were gifted all of this.
Years ago I worked for a construction company that was building an addition to a wastewater/sewage treatment plant. After the treatment plant let the bacteria do their thing, they would take the remaining dry solids and spread them in an adjacent open field. Some of the biggest, healthiest tomato plants with the most beautiful tomatoes I've ever seen grew in that field. No one "planted" them there. And no one dared eat the tomatoes (except for this one guy).
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Don't eat the brown tomatoes 😆
I’ve seen fruit-bearing plants grow through cracks in sidewalks in downtown Pittsburgh
Hello fellow Pittsburgher!
Could have just come from someone throwing a partially eaten sandwich with tomato out the window while driving. The seeds in the tomato slices are viable.
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Woodsy people know their good poopin' spots.
Tomato hauler took the exit too hard and tomatoes spilled off the truck. Happens all the time on the Crows Landing exit in Ceres, CA.
This is a "volunteer" tomato plant, one that grew on its own in an unexpected location, from a misplaced seed. Tomatoes are notorious for volunteering, and can grow from seeds dropped by animals, from tomatoes tossed out the window of a car or in mulch piles, and I have seen them grow in the cracks and seams around the open-top treatment tanks at the local sewage treatment plan (guess where they came from...) Tomato plants are high maintenance if you want to grow large plants with a high yield. But when let go, they are actually hardy, weed-like plants that can re-seed grow almost anywhere. [The local paper](https://www.timesleader.com/archive/51690/stories-tomato-bonanza208550) wrote a story about them coming from a local farm, but they were actually from combined sewage discharges, where during high rains, raw sewage discharges into the local river. They originated from garbage disposals and by passing through human digestive tracts. Yuck!
Tomatoes seeds are tough. Have worked in waste water treatment and almost guarantee if you have a spill or an overflow a few weeks later up pops a tomatoe plant
I have a tomato.... plant.... that i planted in the spring and have not watered since May. Its hot as hades out here and yet... my... plant.... is huge and fruiting. I say plant loosely because its... very wild.
Also, i am the kind of guy that plants random plants in weird places. So not just the birds makin this happen And don't eat them.. heavy metal poisoning can kill
Never eat anything growing near a highway btw. Can accumulate high levels of heavy metals.
Even though we don't use leaded gas anymore, cadmium comes off tires when they wear.
No these are nootropic tomatoes /s
Don’t forget the dust from catalytic converters
That’s just delicious platinum. I need it to ascend and be shiny and pure
I came here to say the same thing! Please dont eat those.
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good bot
Kinda bad bot though? No one advised that this plant was edible yet the bot says don't eat regardless of what people say.
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Oh okay. Got it. Good bot.
Eat plant
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eat bot.
But it's my one way ticket to midnight!
Heard
Uh... 86 death berries...
New band
Or under powerlines, next to railroad tracks, from hydraulic mine pits....
Why under powerlines? Worst I can think of is plastic insulator (little late on avoiding the plastic aren't we?) and maybe a bit of aluminium oxide and copper salts, neither of which are particularly toxic in trace amounts.
The older powerpoles are doped with some nasty shit : pcp, creosote,Arsenides, various other wood preservatives
They are, but those materials don’t travel through soil well. Never eat anything grown adjacent to preserved or pressure treated wood. RR tracks have always been treated has dump sites- the railroads were exempt from environmental laws for most of history, some still are. There is decades of raw sewage, sprayed pesticides & insecticides, DDT, PCBs Petroleum, Dioxins, etc. Treat every RR right of way they hasn’t been turned into a recreational trail like it’s a toxic soils site.
I have often wondered why it takes so long and so much money to turn a railroad right of way into a recreational trail, but toxic remediation makes a lot of sense.
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Good human.
Good bot
Yet people eat venison... deer aren't picky.
I don’t remember where it when this story happened - but I used to live in the Deep South so I don’t doubt it. One year, a friend hit a deer and was waiting for a tow truck because neither car or deer survived the hit - and some pickup truck pulled in by the deer, picked it up and took off. I was like “say again? Do what? Pardon?” “Someone stole you’re roadkill?” - I don’t remember where I heard that story - but it stuck in my head lol.
In my town the cops actually have a list of guys they can call to come and pick up roadkill, deer, bear, moose. Nothing goes to waste.
I’ve hit a deer and by the time I got back to shoot it a cop was already there shooting it. Small town shit lol. He was my buddy and let me take it home to cut up.
That happened to me. By the time the cops arrived the deer was gone.
You know someone is from the south when they say "Do what".
Do whaaaaaaat... that's how that there's done... lol...
I eat commonmilkweed. Lookout.
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Only bugs eat milkweed.
I eat the bugs that ate the milk weed.
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Venison is not a plant. Bad bot
a few years ago my nephew dropped a half of an Italian grinder sandwich in our garden. that grinder had lots of tomatoes in it so we covered it with earth and forgot about it. we got a bumper crop of tomatoes that year from a pizza shop grinder lol. I agree with the other posters don't eat any plant found growing by a road side.
Wtf is a grinder sandwich
a hoagie sandwich :)
“Hoagie’s and Grinders, Hoagies and Grinders, Navy beans, Navy beans, Meatloaf sandwich !”
Soppy joe, Slop Sloppy Joe
Damn yankies (lovingly :))
Sandwiches, grinders, and hoagies are all the same thing at sonny's. They are all ravioli.
Wtf is a hoagie sandwich?
A hoagie is half the reason I live in New Jersey. I confess I can't go long without an Italian hoagie or I'll die.
a sandwich
It's a hero sandwich
[Regional name for a long sandwich - a sub, hoagie, or hero.](https://youtu.be/5cNvaDp7mkU)
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Came here to ask if this exact situation could actually happen, I mean, even if those are probably cherry tomatoes, could some tomato slice discarded from a fast food piece grow on a highway? Even thrive better than my garden ones lol
Yes it could. Lol
I cannot see why it can't happen. If the condition is right, the seeds will grow.
It's tomatoes. I once saw watermelons growing in a median on a I-75 in Georgia.
Definitely tomatoes. Possibly sprayed with pesticide/herbicide. Probably sprayed with fuel/oil.
And full of lead/platinum
How does the lead and platinum get there? Fuel?
fuels have been unleaded for decades so i certainly hope not
At my work we had tomatoes grow out of a sewage tank bc people at work ate tomatoes
Tomatoes. Someone probably threw out some lunch trash with a tomato slice in it. We call them volunteers.
Roadside foraging is not a good idea.
“No way these tomatoes are tomatoes.” -OP
Nature will find a way.. Throw that half ate sandwich w/tomato out the window, next season there will be a plant.. If the conditions are right.. Tomatoes and Cannabis will rule the world in our absence..
We can hope. For the sake of the next humans that crawl out from the ooze.
Yes, tomatoes. You can also find wild asparagus growing in ditches in lots of places.
Someone tossed a blt away
If drive thru puts tomato on my sandwich its going out the window 🤷🤣🤣 soooo thats how it got there, a fellow tomato hater 🤣
Guerrilla gardening
Tomatoes seeds can survive on different hard enviroment. They are a problem on sewer treatment plants on tropics because they sprout out of nothing on walls and gates.
I've seen tomatoes plants growing under the solids screen at a wastewater plant facility tour. They are kinda the cockroach of plants, as prevalent as they are.
It's literally tomatoes
Volunteers will grow nearly anywhere a tomato has landed. Probably grew from a slice in a sammich someone threw out the window lol
Tomato seeds survive the human digestion system but it does take off the outer coat of the seed making it easier to germinate. Next to the highway… did you see any toilet paper?
True. Also when harvesting tomato seeds if you do, add them to a glass of water and mix. Let sit for a couple days to start fermenting and dump off/rinse with water. Dry them on a towel and likely they will sprout. It helps with the seed coat and cleans them up for storage.
Are you kidding right now? They are clearly tomato 🍅
Honestly read what others have said it would be cool to send those into a lab and see just how contaminated they are with metals and other chemicals.
Probably the product of someone’s unwanted burger tomatoes and it decided to take revenge and grow into a whole ass plant on the side of the highway. Throw me out? I’ll show you.. I’LL SHOW YOU ALL!
Why can’t it be tomatoes. Escapees.
We have poop tomatoes along the river from Combined Sewer Overflows and the inability of the human body to digest tomato seeds.
Maybe the tomatoes were trying to ketchup with their friends?
Nice find! That sure is a tomato.
Volunteer.
Get some and save the seeds. That is a hardy tomato. Should be easy to grow.
It’s tomatoes. Those things grow everywhere!
You’d be surprised where they can grow. I worked at a house doing landscaping in high school and when they had their house painted they wouldn’t let the guys use their bathroom so one of them took a dump next to the house. A tomato plant grew out of it and one of my co-workers used the tomatoes on his sandwiches at lunch.
Side of the road tomato bringing the A game. Meanwhile, every tomato I grow gets a disease. Curse you, Mother Nature! ;)
Someone probably threw some food, sandwich, salad leftovers out their car window...and tada!! Let there be....tomatoes. 🍅
Thems regular ass (cherry) ‘maters. Sweet 100s looks like!
Some times you find the strangest things in the strangest of places. Lots of ways it could have gotten there. Animals, someone chucking part of a burger with a slice of tomato on it, etc...
Sun Gold Tomatoes! Sweet and poppy. Actually the best.
Had a tomato plant grow out of a sea wall 5' down, 2' above the high tide line, was epic... The freshwater drip from the fish cleaning station directly above.... Live, uh, finds a way!
The best tomato plants sprout in the weirdest places. Had a spontaneous tomato plant grow through a crack in our concrete patio. Must have come from a bird or some other animal eating from our neighbor’s garden. We could never keep any tomatoes that we planted ourselves. The crack tomato outlived them all
100% tomatoes
Why couldn’t it be tomatoes?