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Are there weeds that imitate tomato plants?

10 years ago

When cleaning my grandparents cemetery plot, I came across some rich soil that developed from workers throwing scrap grass and other debris and used it to plant flowers and some tomatoes.

Now all my pots have what seem to be tomato plants growing in them and I only planted tomatoes in just one pot.
I wonder if what I think is a tomato plant in all these other pots could be some type of wild weed that mimics tomato plants.

Any ideas on my note?

Comments (5)

nlarr81
10 years ago
Could be.....pics help.......I turned soil in an old bed and got basil and peas......
hoosier40 6a Southern IN
10 years ago
I have never really seen any weeds that look exactly like a tomato, but I guess it's possible. Could also be that the workers threw some tomatoes from their lunch into the pile? Might post a pic, would be interesting to see.
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jean001a
10 years ago
Tomato seeds can survive composting.
sjetski
10 years ago
>>>Are there weeds that imitate tomato plants?Yes, they're called cherry tomatoes :p

(ducks and runs for cover)
robeb
10 years ago
sjetski,

I almost laughed beer out of my nose.

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