The Artist Formerly Known As JennyMoo

So, did you know tomato plants can regenerate themselves?  Are tomatoes actually annuals? (Or is it perennials? I can’t ever remember which is which. Like how to spell weird — is that an exception to the “i before e” rule or not?  Weird? Wierd? They both look right to me.) Anyway, speaking of weird, I was weeding a few weeks ago and had these “weeds” that looked suspiciously tomato-plant-y and moreover, smelled suspiciously tomato-plant-y (and if you’ve ever grown tomatoes, you know exactly the smell I mean). So I shrugged and left them there to see what would happen, and then last weekend I slapped some cages around them, because they were doing so well, and now I’ve got two extra tomato plants. No idea about the variety, as I can’t remember what all I planted last year (there were some big ones and some little ones), so we’ll have Tomato Roulette in our garden this year. 

The oddest thing is, they’re growing in a part of the garden that has never had tomatoes.  So I’m guessing that some bits of old tomato vine or roots or something got tilled into the soil and … sprouted? I mean, obviously, but nothing I’ve read about tomatoes has indicated that could happen.

Factoid: I was looking up “roulette” in Webster to make sure I spelled it correctly (yes, in an actual physical dictionary, because I’m quaint and old-school like that), and flipped past “take a powder” on my way to the Rs.  Apparently, it means “to leave hurriedly,” which is not what I thought it meant at all. Yay for dictionaries and unexpected learning!

PS: Yes, I also looked up weird.