I am sure many of you who make your own compost have experienced this.
The lovely compost that you have been making over the past year is then spread over the flower borders, greatly improving the soil and health of your plants.
Then as the summer progresses you find a plant that you did not sow in that border but you do recognise it.
A tomato plant. So instead of weeding it out, you leave it there, no training or pinching out, just let it do its thing.
Then August and September come round and you have tomatoes ripening in the sun!
We have some of these growing in the potato patch and we have had a wonderful crop, plus more still ripening.
The strange thing is that, because of all the rain and damp weather we had in July and August, the potatoes have all suffered from blight, except the Sarpo blight resistant ones.
We have had to remove all the tops from the potatoes to save the crop. But the tomatoes, in the same family as potatoes are unaffected! Explain that.