Random tomato growing on campus

A month ago my labmate R and I were walking back to the lab when we spied a mass of green growing amid a background of dusty brown mulch. It was a tomato, thriving in spite of neglect!


Random tomato plant: by the physics building on the UCSB campus

We're puzzled why we didn't notice it earlier since we often walk by the physics building Broida Hall on the way to/from the lab. I had always thought that the tangle of green on that brown patch of mulch was a weed, and had never looked closely at it until that fateful moment when R noticed and said: hey, there are tomatoes growing off that plant.


Nice healthy tomatoes up close

The tomato plant hasn't been staked, but its many fruit are looking very healthy. I have seen some ants crawling on the fruit surface, but nothing else. I can only hope L's tomatoes grow as well.