Do you allow volunteer plants to grow?  

Gerty, I have no idea what a 'volunteer' is as pertains to plants.

Can you enlighten me please?

It seems we're destined to discuss birds tonight, my friend. What??? I hear you say! Well, it's like this. All the volunteer plants in my garden have been gifted by the birds. I have two redcurrant bushes which are now quite big, four wild strawberry plants, which bear small fruits each year, and several lupins and oak trees which I have put into pots to stop them from growing too large, like a sort of bonsai.

I also have some ferns growing up by the top dry wall garden. They must have brought those as well, because I'm not in the woods exactly! lol.

Brightest Blessings and happy growing, my dear friend. x

If we had any soil at all, I surely would! I never throw away any food that has sprouted in my kitchen, though. If it is not edible as a sprout, I put it in some dirt and see what comes up. But then I am only allowed to keep my plants for up to 6 months at a time because we are nomads. So mostly I plant edibles!

Not very often Gerty, only because my garden space is so small. I have to make the best of the space available to me. I don't have fruit trees right now at all, however in the next 2 years I plan on remedying this. We have just lived in this home now for 2 years, so landscaping has been slow. We did put in a pond last year and most of the season I spent planting water plants and things that would thrive around a pond and in the sun for most of the day. That in and of itself was a chore :)))

Volunteer plants are the best, they are always a surprise. I love getting surprised with the tomato plants, you don't know which kind you are going to get, that is if you have had diferent kinds planted before. I had about 4 different kinds of tomatoes growing last year, it will be interesting to see which volunteers I get. Its also neet when you find stalks of corn growing when you haven't planted any of that. The birds and squirels help with those. Spring is such a wonderful time of year, new life. Its a happy time too, I am looking forward to seeing the garden growing again.

Yes, I have done a few times. At the moment I have a Wattle tree coming up on it's own. I love wattle,& have a reasonable size one in my front garden already.I am not sure what to do with the wattle tree coming up. It's not a good place where it is. I am fairly sure I could find space in my front yard for another tree, although my hubby may think he is allergic to them.

I have always let the plants grow as they please GG..why would I ever want to stop them?
I love plants and would if I had a garden let them grow indeed.xooxoox
Happy gardening GG..I love gardening.

Sure do, and I look forwards to my yearly volunteers! I get a lot of cherry tomato volunteers every year. That's really about all the veggie volunteers I get, but I do get a lot of volunteers from all my bedding plants sown from birds eating seeds and starting them elsewhere with their droppings. Depending on where they start off at, I'll sometimes move them, or let them start until they get big enough to move elsewhere. I like the concept of free plants that just 'show up' and surprise me :-)

Free food why not. I dont get anything but weeds to grow freely here.

I check around very carefully when I'm weeding, and if I find anything useful that's self seeded itself then I carefully transplant it to where I want it to be. What's the point of going to all the effort of seeding, when nature will do it for you?! I'm lucky & have lots of space, so I've normally got room for all the little extras I end up with. At the moment I'm busy rescuing spinach and tomato seedlings from the hoe, which is just as well as I haven't got round to seeding any yet!!