Interested in gardening but don’t want to spend a fortune on plants? #FreeTomatoPlants #GardeningHacks
Have you tried growing tomato plants from seeds found in the fruit? #DIYGardening
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Check out this simple method for growing your own tomato plants from seeds:
Collect and dry tomato seeds
Plant seeds in a paper towel or soil
Use the paper towel method for best results
Optional: transplant seedlings into soil
Help your tomato plants produce flowers for fruit if bees aren’t around
Discover how easy it is to grow your own tomatoes at home with this efficient and budget-friendly technique! #HomeGardening #TomatoSeedPlanting #GrowYourOwnTomatoes
TLDR: plant seeds, get plant.
This is a great idea – but – doesn’t always work.
If you buy hybrid tomatoes, there’s a good chance that either the seeds won’t sprout or the plants will be defective.
Your best bet is to buy “heirloom tomatoes” if at all possible. Then when you save the seeds and grow those tomatoes, they will be perfect for collecting the seeds.
I did this with chillies. I had a random plant pop up and so when the chillies appeared I just cut a few off, cut them open and “planted” them in a row next to my random intruder. The next year I had 4 chilli plants and hundreds of chillies.
Nature’s wild.
Also this made me think of this Mitchell and Webb Look sketch:
Considering I have to water them, what’s the point of drying them in the first place?
OP’s given us an perfect example of “pennywise, pound foolish.”
Seeds are so cheap compared to the time/effort your will put into growing tomatoes that you really should pick exactly what variety your want that will work best for your growing conditions instead of “free” seeds of a variety that been bred to be profitable grown commercially, picked green, artificially ripened with gas, and then survive being trucked 3000 miles instead of being bred to be vine ripened in a home garden and eaten immediately after picking.
There’s hundreds of amazing heirloom and hybrid varieties out there that it would be really sad to just grow the most genetic boring grocery store tomatoes because the seeds were free.
Bought some really nice tomatoes from a Greek market near us, they’re crazy expensive but delicious. Planted a few seeds and now have our own plants… worth it
Wow really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one. Ha
My boys and I plant actual tomatoes in the dirt in Feb/March. We slice the tomato and put a slice in each pot in potting soil. Keep it wet until they sprout! We grow several types of tomatoes every year, and have them to eat July-Oct
This only works with tomatoes?