Comments on: Volunteer Plants Reporting for Garden Duty

By: How to plan a garden

How to plan a garden — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:16:40 +0000

Yes, I like my volunteer plants too.. who doesn’t
Good thing for them too!

Keep up the good work with amazing content!

By: Kenny Point

Kenny Point — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:45:41 +0000

Thanks Genie, those tomato volunteers can be almost weed like when they show up in mass. Stephen that’s a great idea to share the tomato plants with others. I love the volunteers too and they truly are blessings… whether they are veggies, flowers, or herbs that make a surprise appearance in the garden.

By: Lin Pearson

Lin Pearson — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:41:43 +0000

What a blessing these volunteers are. I sometimes get rogue spuds from a previous year, but not much else. However, volunteer aquilega, foxgloves, feverfew and poppies add such colour and give me a lot of pleasure.

By: Tyra in Vaxholm Sweden

Tyra in Vaxholm Sweden — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:41:38 +0000

Interesting to read about your volunteer plants, I certainly appreciate and love my volunteers in my garden.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:48:08 +0000

Cherry and grape tomato volunteers have been fairly common in our garden over the years. We give them a start and then put them into 4-inch pots and give them to neighbor kids or take them by the commumnity garden on Saturdays when there is almost always someone who would like to give them a try. As for the leafy greens, this is deer country and just last week we set greens volunteers outside the garden and the fawns finished them off quickly.

By: Genie

Genie — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:51:02 +0000

This is a great round-up of information, Kenny. I just pointed you out to my friend Michelle, who has discovered a bevy of volunteer tomatoes in her garden -- this is quite well timed!