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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