Don't discard the volunteers that will eventually crop up in the garden next season. They survived the winter and will be very hardy.
I had about twenty "volunteer" tomato plants come up randomly in a spot that I grew tomatoes in last year and had tilled and amended with wood chip compost.
I let them grow until they were about ten inches with a couple of sets of leaves on them. Then I dug them and transplanted them after putting down a discarded Lowes lumber tarp. So far I've picked about two bushel boxes of excellent tomatoes from these plants. A couple of plants were beefsteaks(not my favorite but these did well), three cherry sweet 100's, a couple of Romas and the rest were Rutgers. Canned 24 quarts of them over last weekend.
Compared to all the other ones I planted, these did the best by far. I don't anticipate having to buy any more plants or start anymore seeds next spring, I'll just be watching for the volunteers to pop up and do the same thing.
Just put in two more 50ft rows of Roma green beans yesterday in some still warm, well rotted woodchip compost that I amended with some 19-19-19 and a little pelletized limestome. We got a couple of inches of rain last evening and it watered them in nicely. Should have beans sprouting up by Saturday morning and be picking them in mid Sept.
I had about twenty "volunteer" tomato plants come up randomly in a spot that I grew tomatoes in last year and had tilled and amended with wood chip compost.
I let them grow until they were about ten inches with a couple of sets of leaves on them. Then I dug them and transplanted them after putting down a discarded Lowes lumber tarp. So far I've picked about two bushel boxes of excellent tomatoes from these plants. A couple of plants were beefsteaks(not my favorite but these did well), three cherry sweet 100's, a couple of Romas and the rest were Rutgers. Canned 24 quarts of them over last weekend.
Compared to all the other ones I planted, these did the best by far. I don't anticipate having to buy any more plants or start anymore seeds next spring, I'll just be watching for the volunteers to pop up and do the same thing.
Just put in two more 50ft rows of Roma green beans yesterday in some still warm, well rotted woodchip compost that I amended with some 19-19-19 and a little pelletized limestome. We got a couple of inches of rain last evening and it watered them in nicely. Should have beans sprouting up by Saturday morning and be picking them in mid Sept.