On Sun, 1 Jan 2017 18:17:20 -0800 (PST), ItsJoanNotJoann
wrote:

On Sunday, January 1, 2017 at 7:01:39 PM UTC-6, Oren wrote:

I was kinda serious. I planted 6 or 8 4" inch plants and never had to
buy any more, a garden in PA. Tomatoes that fell on the ground,
eventually sprouted hundreds of plants the next spring. I gave
dozens to neighbors, made sauce, etc. The tomatoes will sprout in a
good soil, before you ever plant.


This past summer I had a cherry tomato plant sprout at my front
porch steps. Either a bird or squirrel dropped or pooped tomato
seeds there as I've NEVER planted tomatoes. I had l-o-t-s of
cherry tomatoes until frost.

Did you buy sod, sludge or organic fertilizer recently? Tomato seeds
survive a trip through the digestive system.
When they were recycling sludge in DC everyone had cherry tomatoes in
their yard if they were anywhere in that stream.