Should have offered them for sale. LOL I don’t know why, but from a psych stand point, it seems that one can sell what no one will take for free.
I’ve heard of people putting stuff on a table with a big sign for free, and no one took them up on it. So they changed the sign and put up prices, then left them out all night. Some one picked them up using the five finger discount. LOL
People can be strange. It was an interesting turn out on those plants. Instead of simply dumping them I planted them along a fence line and just let them do whatever. I’m not kidding, more than half of the tomatoes I canned came from those plants and they produced up until it it froze. It was interesting to watch too. I had to watch my garden tomatoes all the time for horn worms but saw that there was one cardinal that came to those plants out there and checked for horn worms. I had noticed one one morning early but didn’t pick it off and sure enough there came that cardinal and got it after I walked away.