Tomatoes growing in my sink drain

[Emmy2020]

I have noticed loads of cherry tomatoes growing in my outside drain that comes from my kitchen sink. They are growing on the side of the drain but are they safe to eat since soapy water, cleaning stuff goes down there?

This is quite a common occurrence. I don’t think I’d eat them.

You might want to post in property/diy can be sign of a leaking drain.

I wouldn’t eat those personally

Thanks yeah I am not sure about eating them 😂
Think it’s more likely the seeds went down the drain and that’s how it grew. Think I’m going to stick some seeds in a pot and grow them that way as they seem to grow so easily!

Yeah don't eat them. All the chemicals they will have picked up when growing.

A friend who works at a sewage treatment facility said there used to loads of tomato plants, corn and all sorts growing around the site. Apparently they're not easily destroyed even when the sewage is treated and cleaned and will grow even better from the dried, treated human waste.

Not sure I'd want them on my salad though. I'm sure the sewage has enough toilet chemicals in to turn us into some sort of disfigured, horrific comic book villain.

I would tend not to worry about what the plants has ingested, since the plant's way of life basically means breaking down chemicals as they come in and rebuilding them into something else. But I'd worry about what they were picking up on their surface and whether this was easily washed off.