Earlier this year I got some banana trees and 1was dead and rotting so I put it in the compost.now I have a small tree growing from the rotting 1

Glenn, compost is miraculous stuff. I've had some of my most wonderful things grow out of compost! I once had a canteloupe vine that put out 6 of the sweetest canteloupes ever volunteer out of my compost pile. When I lived in Venice, I was trying to fill in an old empty pond with yard trash. One day, I had some old tomato plants with some green tomatoes on them that I threw in there. Not much later, a beautiful beefsteak tomato plant came up at the wrong time of year, but nonetheless, gave me 2 large and 4 small tomatoes.

My hubby kept putting everything I deadheadedin his compost plus old dug up plant roots and stems. So over time I ended up with two caladiums sprouting in his compost bins, a tomato plant, a butternut squash plant that gave up about a dozen squash (that one was up north), a couple of begonias and an impatients!

Tomatoes. A couple of years after I tried unsuccessfully to grow tomatoes I got some delicious volunteers which grew from the compost heap.

This year was so strange with seedlings. I had tomato seedlings sprout from a completedly dried out six-pack that turned out to be Everglades, so I planted all six of them out into the garden. Hey, can't have too much of those yummy little things. Now I have pepper seeds volunteering in a pot and I can't remember if they are long red cayennes or red bells. I'll grow a couple out to find out for sure.

I have a caladium growing in a tomato plant pot. Have no idea how it got there, as I didn't reuse soil in that pot.

I've also gotten about a dozen seedlings of my ceylon spinach (talinum fruticosum) come up in pots all over, so I'll have plenty of salad material this summer, plus they are just so pretty. I'd like to have the Talinum paniculatum too. I'm looking for the variegated Jewels of Opar if anyone wants to trade seeds later on.

My problem is that I can't bring myself to throw away any of the volunteers, so have to find places for them, which at present isn't very easy.

Went out to the compost today to put in some scraps and found some new volunteers.three unknown tipes of tomato.I hope that they are a beefsteak tipe

Well, keep us informed about those, Glenn.

I forgot about my potatoes. I always have potatoes coming up all over the yard where I bury peelings.