It appears yuk is becoming yum in Moville with fresh reports tomatoes are sprouting up from people's poo, and this, the Journal can assure you, isn't a load of crap!

Inishowen people won't be getting the red card on their five-a-day with the seedy vegetables po(o)pping up like wildfire along the town's seafront.

The Journal can reveal the family favourite is being produced because of raw sewage - containing the tomato seeds - allegedly flowing into the River Bredagh.

For us humans, whether it's a tomato sarnie or a fry you prefer, our digestive system simply can't ketch-up, hence the tomato seeds reappearing after a visit to the loo.

Red-faced Gerry McLaughlin, from popular Moville-based website, Craicon, said it was 'red alert' when he saw around 24 tomato plants on the seafront last week.

He told the Journal: "Tomatoes are growing on the seafront behind the River Row in Moville.

"They are growing just over the sea wall amongst the rocks.

"On a recent walk I counted 24 tomato plants and at least half had tomatoes on them."

Suspecting the tomatoes had grown because someone had dumped tomatoes plants over the sea wall, hungry Gerry picked them up, squeezed them into his bag and took them home to ripen.

But it wasn't quite the garden of eden Gerry had found, and it wasn't smelling particularly rosy either.

It was only when he published his findings on his website the stinking story was revealed.

He said: "One of our website readers came up with a theory.

"Local actress and drama teacher, Movania Parkinson, called to say she had seen a TV programme about tomato plants growing in sewers.

"It seems that the human body does not digest the seeds of tomato plants and they come out in , how can I put this delicately, their poo.

"It also seems that the the tomatoes that grow in the sewerage system are very good quality and have won many prizes.

"As we all know, raw sewage flows into the River Bredagh and then into the Lough.

"Movania's theory is that this is where the tomatoes come from.

"Tomato plants don't grow every year. They grow one year and then they die."

According to the theory the seeds come from people's poo before making their way into the river before nestling in the soil, which gets blown just over the sea wall among the rocks.

No brown trout

Tomato-fan Gerry reckons the juicy tomatoes are being grown, fall off because they're not being picked and re-grow the following year.

He added: "That seems a good enough theory. We may be missing the brown trout in the lower reaches of the Bredagh River - but at least we've got some tomatoes.

"My sister is currently ripening the tomatoes she picked, so I won't be letting her know about the theory of where they came from before she eats them." (Too late now Gerry!]