Compost volunteer plants

[Chloride Kate]

I started a container garden with some of our compost and have volunteer plants (and probably weeds) popping up all over. I don't want to pull them necessarily, but I'm not sure what to do here. How do you decide what stays and what goes?

If it matters, the garden is tight on space as is, so I worry about letting additional plants take up space.

[kaylie]

I have something similar going on - in my case it's some type of squash but there are several of them. I'm allowing them to grow in a couple of empty areas, but if I see something that isn't supposed to be there and *might* be a weed, I pull it.

[dirtyred]

I had a volunteer tomato in my compost pile a couple of years ago. As it was on the edge, I just let it grow and actually got quite a few tomatoes from it.

[Chloride Kate]

I guess part of my problem is that I'm not sure what any of the plants are- I think some may be tomatoes and one or two are probably some sort of squash. Maybe I'll leave those and pull the rest.