Weedy humanure
About a week after applying humanure
around the base of our kiwi plants, I figured out a minor flaw --- the
compost is chock full of tomato seeds. When I cook tomatoes into
soups and sauces, I leave the skins and seeds in, and apparently the
human digestive tract doesn't bother the seeds at all. Since
tomatoes are a large proportion of our winter diet, the result is a
forest of seedlings everywhere I laid down humanure in the garden.
I'll let all of the
tomato seeds sprout, then if they seem to be growing too fast, I'll let
Mark whack them down with the weedeater. In future, it might be
smart to apply humanure just a few weeks before the first frost --- long
enough to get the seeds to sprout before winter naturally kills them
off.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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That is to funny. Back in my childhood daddy would bring home big ripe tomatoes. They called them miners tomatoes. A lot of people would not eat them, can you imagine that. There was nothing wrong with them, more for us. Mom roseanenn
Hi Anna and Mark,
No need to save or buy tomato seeds!!
Seeds come with matched fertilizer ready to plant !!
Grow like the dickens :).
A whole new chapter in seed saving :).
John
Haven't had much experience with humanure yet, but like Faith T, I've had tomatoes sprout from my worm compost, too. Along with cucumbers, apples, pears, avocados...
It will be interesting to see what else comes up!