Year before last some of my best producing tomato plants were from compost in various places around the yard. I even let one stay that was in the middle of the lawn. This year I'm getting volunteers from tomatoes that fell off the vines last season. I've even had tomatoes come up in pots. Also either a watermelon or cantaloupe is blooming in a flower bed. So much fun to see what comes up from our compost.

The best cantaloupe I ever grew came up in the compost bed. I just left it there and composted around it.

I do all the time, and I try to exclude seeds as best as I can but some still appear. Tomato, bell pepper, onions, and a couple others I can’t remember.

Have a gourd vine from the decorative Halloween gourds tossed in the compost in December. There have been many flowers and there were a few little gourds developing a few weeks ago but only one left on the vine now.

All kinds of plants sprout in my compost but the only one I preserve and cultivate is potatoes. I figure you know this but only heirloom tomato varieties come true from seed. On the subject of composting spent plants,don't compost those that host svb,send them to landfill or burn instead.