Wife and I enjoy plants, and have fun propagating from seeds in our food. We now have an 8' mango tree, a 6' avocado, many spices and other goodies. Latest score was when Jane brought home the strangest fruit I have ever seen- dragon fruit. Bizarre looking thing, but tasty. Seeds were tiny black specs. So now we have about 30 little seedlings coming up. Will be interesting to see what they grow into. Anybody else do this?
No. I tried planting M&Ms AND Skittles last year. Nothing!
My bacon tree isn't doing well either
In reply to cwh:
My inlaws have both a mango and avocado tree. They are HUGE. And the fruit- holy cow.
My best emulation of what you are doing is propagating existing grapes, blackberries, and raspberries. They are very good, thankfully.
i throw compost in the garden during off garden season. last year we had a cantaloupe plant come up and got a couple good melons. this year we have a zillion little tomatoes and got a good acorn squash off a compost sourced plant.
I keep trying for a money tree myself. Not much luck there either.
On the other hand, the impromptu pumpkin vine that started in my compost pile has taken over a good section of my back yard and the neighbors.
I have an apple tree that grew out of an old compost pile.
In grade school, we went on a field trip to a sewage treatment plant. This was a long time ago - I'm sure the process is much different now.
The final stage of treatment yielded a slurry that was pumped into shallow troughs where the effects of the sun would cause evaporation yielding something resembling drying mud, which could then be scraped up and hauled away.
The troughs were filled with, FILLED WITH... tomato plants.
We were told that tomato seeds were the one and only thing that would survive the treatment process intact. We were further told that the muddy gunk that they were growing in was perfectly safe, not harmful in any way, and a great medium for plant growth. We were all given small tomato plants in pea-pots as souvenirs. Take them home, plant them in the yard and grow your own tomatoes - we were told.
As I recall we imagined them as toxic grenades and hurled them at one another while walking home from the bus stop that afternoon.
in elementary school i recall having quite the variety of corn, alfalfa, sunflowers and pumpkin grow in the area of the yard where i'd dump out the hampster's cage when cleaning it.
Planted a bunch of parts in the backyard, but my car plant has failed to thrive.
I do not plant fruit trees or shrubs, but do steal wild flowers from public spaces from tie to time and transplant them.
I also do this. We have a pear tree about 2 years old, got some tomatoes, green peppers, a pumpkin and some other things.
The funny thing is that Monsanto can possibly come and fine you for not licensing the use of their seeds if your garden gets too big.
NOHOME wrote: Planted a bunch of parts in the backyard, but my car plant has failed to thrive.
I've been trying to grow a new Volvo. Hasn't been working for me either.
Ian F wrote:NOHOME wrote: Planted a bunch of parts in the backyard, but my car plant has failed to thrive.I've been trying to grow a new Volvo. Hasn't been working for me either.
No bumper crop for me either.
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