I do wish I'd read this thread yesterday instead of the one that made me all grumpy.
Hully, I too have a tomato magic story:
Do you remember the year of all the flooding, centred on Tewkesbury, Gloucester, Worcester etc. I think it was 2006 or 2007.
My mum and dads back garden flooded, looked like a Chinese water garden. There was mud and poo all over for weeks.
When it finally all cleared mum and dad went on holiday for a month. When they came back dad was expecting grass a mile high, but instead the garden was covered in tomato plants, they were everywhere, even growing out of the walls of the garage and shed.
Do you know why?
Human poo.
The seeds don't digest completely, when the sewers erupted it spilled all the poo-ey tomato-ey goodness all over the garden. The neighbours at the back whose house flooded had them growing out of the walls.
Never have I been so glad not to eat tomatoes