Wouldn’t it be nice to plant a delicious fruit once and have the plant come back to offer its tasty treats over and over again? The plants in this gallery will all drop seeds into your garden to do just that.

Swipe through to find out which fruits and vegetables are self-seeding.

Ground Cherry

These small round fruits are beloved in many parts of the country for making jam. Plant them in full sun and well-draining soil, and let a few fall to the ground in autumn. Next spring, you’ll be rewarded with new plants springing up on their own.

Pumpkin

Leave a pumpkin on the vine to break down naturally, and you’ll have more pumpkin plants next growing season. These big gourds easily reseed, feeding on the decay of rotting fruit.

Tomato

How about those half-eaten by a squirrel tomatoes that you leave to replenish the soil? Their seeds will reward you come springtime by growing into new, beautiful plants that will produce more fruit for you to fight the squirrels over.

Blackberry

Blackberries are often eaten by birds, who disperse the seeds through their digestive system. So even if you didn’t have a blackberry bush one year, you may have one the next year, courtesy of your neighbor’s bush and the local avian population.

Cantaloupe

Cantaloupe reseed pretty easily too. Leave one in the garden to decompose and it will reward you with fresh plants come spring.

Cucumber

Cucumber plants are very easy to grow and if the bees find them and do their thing, they'll produce enough cucumbers to share with the whole neighborhood. Leave one fruit to nourish the earth and you’ll see seedlings popping up when the weather warms.