http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/starting-tomato-plants/ Featuring Vegetable Gardening Tips, Organic Growing Techniques, and Unique Plants for the Backyard Gardener Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:38:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/starting-tomato-plants/#comment-517 Lisa Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:53:13 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/starting-tomato-plants/#comment-517 I started growing my own tomatoes three years ago, but it was only last year that I thought I would try drying some seeds from one of my ripe tomatoes. I took the biggest tomato that grew and dried its seeds. This spring I planted those seeds, and in addition, I bought 7 different varieties of tomatos from packets. I got the most pleasant surprise, those seeds that I harvested last year are producing the biggest, healthiest tomato plants in my greenhouse. My tomatoes are still green so I am yet to do a taste test but I know that tomato seeds are good for 2 years so I will definately try to seed more plants from that one beautiful 1-3/4 pound tomato again next year. Yup, we don't have to buy tomato seeds anymore, we take the biggest tomato, dry the seeds and we've got much nicer tomatoes than we can buy seeds for from the store! I grew over 50 tomato plants this year, I only needed 14 to fit into my greenhouse, I gave all the rest my plants away to people that appreciated growing tomatoes. Hopefully they will take the seeds from their biggest tomatoes and pass the seeds along to other appreciating tomato growers. I hope this idea catches on to you folks. I started growing my own tomatoes three years ago, but it was only last year that I thought I would try drying some seeds from one of my ripe tomatoes. I took the biggest tomato that grew and dried its seeds. This spring I planted those seeds, and in addition, I bought 7 different varieties of tomatos from packets. I got the most pleasant surprise, those seeds that I harvested last year are producing the biggest, healthiest tomato plants in my greenhouse. My tomatoes are still green so I am yet to do a taste test but I know that tomato seeds are good for 2 years so I will definately try to seed more plants from that one beautiful 1-3/4 pound tomato again next year. Yup, we don’t have to buy tomato seeds anymore, we take the biggest tomato, dry the seeds and we’ve got much nicer tomatoes than we can buy seeds for from the store! I grew over 50 tomato plants this year, I only needed 14 to fit into my greenhouse, I gave all the rest my plants away to people that appreciated growing tomatoes. Hopefully they will take the seeds from their biggest tomatoes and pass the seeds along to other appreciating tomato growers. I hope this idea catches on to you folks.

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