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I just got out of a water conference. The big takeaway was for me was that where sewer spills happened, tomatoes grow later.
It's not too surprising. Tomatoes are usually eaten uncooked, so the seeds are almost always viable when they hit the sewer system. Add to that tomatoes are tropical, so when a seed hits the soil it's gonna start growing.
I wonder if plants have started growing in the sewers before and what the effects of that would be
They warned about this in the 70s...
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