{"id":8028,"date":"2018-07-02T07:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T11:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=8028"},"modified":"2018-06-29T13:31:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T17:31:55","slug":"unexpected-consequence-of-compost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2018\/07\/02\/unexpected-consequence-of-compost\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Consequence of Compost"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Surprise tomato with nasturtiums behind and pineapples in upper right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year, I was determined. I was going to direct sow seeds into the garden beds in my back yard and grow something. I watered them every day and was rewarded, after an inordinately long time, with tiny little sprouty things.\u00a0 I planted nasturtiums, lemon balm, and lemon grass.\u00a0 I received nasturtiums and tomatoes.<\/p>\n

Pretty amazing, right?\u00a0 Almost magic.\u00a0 After some head scratching and wondering if the seed company had somehow got it hilariously wrong I realized something.\u00a0 Besides the lemon balm and lemon grass seeds that didn’t sprout, I had unwittingly sown tomato seeds into the bed fresh from the compost heap I raided to amend the dirt.<\/p>\n

I have fuzzy memories of watching a Martha Stewart episode, or some such, that talked about how to harvest tomato seeds for your own garden and it involved rotting the gelatinous protective shell of the seeds before they could be planted.\u00a0 Well, in a compost heap this happens naturally right?\u00a0 Now, I’m just as lazy a composter as I am a gardener, so I’m probably not doing something right, like creating an environment where a lot of heat is generated.\u00a0 I just throw fruit and vegetable waste on the heap and cover it with the leaves and grass clippings that are also\u00a0 on the heap.\u00a0 Nature does the rest.\u00a0 So now, I am half expecting random tomatoes in every amended bed.\u00a0 It adds some randomness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year, I was determined. I was going to direct sow seeds into the garden beds in my back yard and grow something. I watered them every day and was rewarded, after an inordinately long time, with tiny little sprouty things.\u00a0 I planted nasturtiums, lemon balm, and lemon grass.\u00a0 I received nasturtiums and tomatoes. 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