This article is about sweet and juicy tomatoes, and how to save their seeds for the next year. First of all, I have some questions:
- Do you like tomatoes?
- Where do you used to buy them? At local markets or supermarkets? Or groceries? Or from your neighbour in your village?
- Do you have a garden or at least a balcony to grow tomatoes or other veggies?
- Have you ever compared the taste of beautiful but unripe supermarket tomatoes with a real homestead one?
- Is it worth a little work for you?
- Do you have enough patience to wait the end of ripening?
Warning! What I show now is illegal in some countries, such as rainwater collection. Nevertheless, I encourage you to spread this simple method, show your family and friends!
(F.ck GMO and Monsanto!!!)
Saving the seeds:
- 1st step: Get a ripe tomato, don't mind if it's too soft. Best from ecological farms or homestead, or you can also buy it at local markets.
- 2nd step: Take some blotting paper. Toilet paper, napkin or paper handkerchief (unscented!!!) also good!
- 3rd step: Wash, then cut in two halves. Look at the seeds! They should be completely mature!
- 4th step: Get a knife, then pick the seeds carefully , putting them on the blotting paper. Then cut pieces of the tomato, saving more seeds. Eat the remains of the tomato!
- 5th step: Dry the seeds and put them in dry and cool place. Label with date and the name of the tomato (for example Heart Shaped).
- 6th step: Collect plastic cups for planting the seeds. Next spring place 2-3 seeds in one cupful soil, water them and wait until they grow as big as your hand, then plant them in your garden or bigger vessels. We used to plant them outside after Easter. Do not forget to hold them up with pickets, because they can grow high, and the stems are too weak to hold big fruits.
Our homestead tomato in Miskolc:
You can repeat this procedure every year, and you'll have your own fresh tomatoes. Make friends interested in homesteading, and change your seeds and experiences!
Good luck!
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Great! I do love tomatoes in several ways and also prefer cherry tomatoes more for their use in Salads. Tomatoes full of lycopene is such a wonderful anti-oxidant.
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Tomato is also great for wound treatment, it has a contractile effect.
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OMGosh yes!!!!!
Where do you used to buy them? At local markets or supermarkets? Or groceries? Or from your neighbour in your village?
In season, I grow my own or go to local roadside fruit market. Off-season... I don't buy, not very good. Although over this past winter I did grow two plants indoors and was able to have the delicious garden tomato taste
Do you have a garden or at least a balcony to grow tomatoes or other veggies?
Yuppers! 1/3 of an acre of land full of herbs, flowers and vegetables
Have you ever compared the taste of beautiful but unripe supermarket tomatoes with a real homestead one?
ick...blch yes... no store bought ones in this house... ever!
Is it worth a little work for you?
Oh heavens...YES
Some days I question my patience... lol
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Thanks for your answers! I'm always very happy when I find so enthusiastic people like you!
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Oh when it comes to gardening... planting... preserving or any kind of homesteading project... I am all energetic! 🙃
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I love tomatoes fresh from the garden and my Gran taught me to grow tomatoes and save the seeds from the best of each plant. I wish I could still garden myself, but my health won’t permit that. My husband tries, bless his heart. These days, our garden is where plants go to die. :(
In fact, I had the very last of my Gran’s heirloom tomato seeds. She grewe tomatoes as big as a babies head! When my husband planted them, everyone was excited and waiting for seeds from them. The plants died before ever putting out the first tomato.
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Oh, I'm sorry for your garden! What happened there? No water?
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I love tomatoes and I only eat them seasonally or if I can manage to dry or preserve them for off season. I either save my seeds or order them from a heritage seed source.
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That's great, dear Donna. Let's show a good example for people!
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We always grow our tomatoes. Seeds are collected from the most beautiful and large specimens, we grow seedlings first, then we arrange the tomatoes separately. We have a very good variety and I really love to work for a good harvest))).
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That's great! Healthiest is that you eat your self-grown food!
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Yes, we prefer our vegetables and fruits.
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Good post!! upvote!!
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yummy 🍅I love tomatoes😍
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This is a very good way to grow your own vegetables. And it ends up being healthier and the experience is gratifying. It is good for people because we know how unnatural some vegetable are sold in some supermarkets. Also, people in places where the social and economic situation is devastating can use this method to provide to themselves.
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My father was a farmer and he said that grabs the largest fruit and let it ripen until almost decomposing is better and then the seeds are placed on a plate and left to dry well, you guarantee that the seeds germinate almost all.
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