I love "compost surprise"! I've had tomatoes, potatoes and pumpkins spring up out of my compost in previous years. The pumpkins turned out to be butternuts - yum! The plant rambled all over the place and I had picked pumpkins sitting in rows in the laundry, enough to last for several months.

This year, I found two tiny tomato seedlings growing in the ditch in front of some big tomato plants I had. I transplanted them into another part of the garden and watched them grow into big lush bushes. It wasn't till the fruit started to form, that I realised I had Romas. Strange thing is I have never grown Romas. Might have eaten some that I bought, but the compost heap is about 20 feet away. I would maybe think that someone here before me might have grown them, except that this is a garden which didn't exist till I came here 18 months ago. It was a lawn. So who knows? I'm certainly not complaining though!

The Roma tomatoes are getting to full size now and about to get some colour, so that's something else to enjoy soon, along with my cherry tomatoes, Big Reds, passionfruit, spinach and beans. Just starting to pick beans, and I'm giving passionfruit away - even gave some to the NRMA man who came to try and fix my car which has basically died. He did try awfully hard, so I thought - why not?

Jenny