Tomato Surprise

Hidden Tomato Plant

So, after tenderly hand raising her tomato plants under grow lights in her office, carefully watering the seedlings with purified water, hand carrying them outside for a few hours each day, and then helping her dad get his tomatoes started in Indiana, Cindy returned to her garden here in San Diego a few weeks ago and found a surprise waiting for her in her rose bed:  a thriving volunteer tomato plant nestled in among the roses.

We have no idea what variety tomato it is or how it got into the rose bed in the front yard, when the "official" tomatoes are in the veggie garden in the back yard, but it seems to be thriving on neglect.

Don't need no fancy grow lights, no premium fertilizer, no careful "hardening off" to adapt to living outdoors, no sir.  Just spring up where ever and start growing.

And now it's already got a tomato forming on one of the branches.

A stealth tomato, what a surprise.