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Tomato Blight, What Tomato Blight? » Veggie Gardening Tips — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:44:49 +0000

[...] of the tomato transplants were started from seed but I did purchase a few seedlings to add to my home grown tomato plants. So I don’t know if the [...]

By: tom scott

tom scott — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:58:26 +0000

Good advice, thank you. Me and the wife have a tomato she brought home and put a piece in yard and every year it comes up in the same spot. I think it likes it here. I can till and it still comes up guess that is where it wants to be but bought some more and when in school (25 years ago) we made plants with paper towel and plastic bag/cup, to start. Good luck on your garden, time to pick my blackeye peas.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:53:13 +0000

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.