A potato from a tomato plant?

[RidgebackRanch]

So before I replant the tuber you are saying I should cut a piece off and let the larger piece scab over before I plant it? I really don't want to screw this up if it would be of interest to science.

Oh and writing down the parsimonious, you're that is a great word! It's right up there with mucilaginous.

 

[RidgebackRanch]

My apologies to all the mystery has been solved. About 6 weeks ago I topped off the two tomato beds with more soil after they had settled a bit. That soil came from the area where I had pulled my pathetic potato plants that did not produce any bigger than the one in the picture.

My thanks to Marshall, how this happened has been rattleing around in my brain since day one, and Friday afternoon it came to me. This is a lesson for me to keep a detailed garden journal because it is obvious I cannot rely on my own failing memory.

I am very sorry for all the hype and never meant to mislead anyone about this. Thank you all for your interest though!

 

[lesa]

How funny! I added compost to a cherry tree planting far from the garden. Last night I was noticing a tomato plant growing out there! Took a minute of head scratching to figure that one out!

 

[897tgigvib]

It was a fun mystery that's for sure!

I guess the answer was a parsimonious solution.

Now if I can find the most parsimonious solution for why I'm getting beans from one plant that don't look like any I have ever seen anywhere, white with faint black stars on one side, and the hilums look like Hutterite. I think maybe Mayflower crossed with Hutterite. But beans so rarely cross pollinate it might be a more parsimonious solution to think someone serruptitiously planted a bean seed that even Marshall has never seen the likes of. My gut tells me to want it to be a rare hybrid bean.

I like garden mysteries, usually anyway. I do not like mystery diseases or bad bugs, but most garden mysteries are a lot of fun!

 

[digitS']

Well, it would have been of great value!

An advance of civilization.

Noble, grand and worthy of a saint . . .

Ah well, those sorts of things only come along and are missed - once or twice every afternoon, usually. It is best to stay open to them and not rely too much on previous experience, logic and common details.

Steve