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Saving Tomato Seeds

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Saving seeds from your favourite tomatoes

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These tomatoes were grown from seeds saved from a tomato bought from a produce stand.
Growing tomatoes from seeds is certainly rewarding, especially when you’ve procured the seeds yourself. I was inspired to collect tomato seeds from a tasty cherry tomato bought from the grocery store. I had no idea what variety it was, so saving some of their seeds seemed like a good idea. It was a successful experiment and I have been harvesting their plentiful and tasty bounty ever since. 
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Heirloom varieties will grow true from seed, however, hybrid tomatoes may not resemble the parent plant.
Parentage
Seeds from heirloom varieties will be the same as the parent plant, as they have not been bred with another tomato variety. However seeds from hybrids, where parents differ, their offspring will not grow up to be identical to their parents. This means that their seeds will have traits from both varieties of tomatoes. If you are not sure if the tomato is an heirloom variety, save the seeds anyway as it doesn’t hurt to experiment and you might be pleased with the results. 
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Tomato seeds are protected by a jelly-like substance that prevents seeds from germinating.
The Process
Tomato seeds are surrounded by a jelly-like substance that inhibits them from germinating. To remove this substance, they need to be fermented. Fermentation also improves resistance to diseases and bacteria.
  1. Select a very ripe tomato and cut it in the middle to expose the seeds.
  2. Scoop out the seeds and place in a small bowl.
  3. Add enough water to just cover the seeds.
  4. After a few days mould will form and it will start to smell.
  5. Dump the seeds into a fine meshed sieve and gently rinse.
  6. Place the seeds on a plate to allow them to dry. Avoid using a paper towel as they are difficult to remove.
  7. Allow the seeds to dry on the plate, mixing them up every few days to ensure all seeds are dry.
  8. Once the seeds are dry, place them in an envelope or an airtight container.
  9. Label and don’t forget to include the year. 
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Soak tomato seeds in water and allow them to ferment to release the seeds from the jelly.
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Dry seeds on a plate, not a paper towel as they stick to the paper and are difficult to remove.
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Once mould forms place them in a sieve and gently rinse them.
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Once seeds are dry, place them in an envelope and label them.

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    • Rose Sawfly
    • Rose Bloom Balling
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    • Prune Your Own Garden Registration
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    • Soil Building
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    • Compost Tea
    • Planting Spring Flowering Bulbs
    • Houseplant Winter Care
  • Growing Food
    • Spring Veggie Gardening
    • Crop Rotation, Succession & Companion Planting
    • Harvesting
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    • Winter Veggie Gardening
    • Taming Tomatoes
    • Speeding up Tomato Harvest
    • Tomato Tips
    • Tomato Troubles
  • Plant Pests 1
    • Plant Pests Part 2 - Controlling Insects
    • Viburnum Leaf Beetle
    • Dormant Oil/Lime Sulfur
    • Japanese Beetles
    • Peony Blotch/Measles
    • Slugs & Snails
    • Horsetail, the Weed
    • June Beetle
    • Powdery Mildew
    • Soil Solarization
    • Rhododendron Leaf Spot
    • Plant Rusts
  • Container Growing
    • Choosing a Container
  • Monthly Flower Arrangements
  • Feeding Plants 101
    • Fertilizers & Ratios
    • Nutritional Deficiencies & Toxicities
    • Organic Plant Food
  • Plant of the Month
    • Colourful Fall Plants
    • Aubretia, Rock Cress
    • Astilbes
    • Aucuba, Japanese Spotted Laurel
    • Autumn Crocus
    • Beautyberry, Callicarpa
    • Black-eyed Susans
    • Bleeding Heart, Lamprocapnos spectabilis
    • Dahlias
    • Devil's Walking Stick, Aralia spinosa
    • Dwarf Burning Bush
    • Fall Asters
    • Flowering Currants
    • Flowering Quince
    • Garden Phlox
    • Harry Lauder's Walking Stick
    • Heathers
    • Hellebores, Lenten roses
    • Himalayan Sweet Box
    • Jack-in-the-pulpit, cobra lily
    • Laurustinus viburnum, Viburnum tinus
    • Lavenders
    • Lily-of-the-Valley Shrub, Pieris japonica
    • Mediterranean Spurge
    • Montana Clematis
    • Mountain Ash
    • Oriental Poppies
    • Paperbark Maple
    • Pink Dawn Bodnant Viburnum
    • Poinsettia
    • Ornamental Kale
    • Peruvian Lily, Alstroemeria
    • Persian Silk Tree
    • Japanese Anemones
    • Japanese Forest Grass
    • Japanese Maples
    • Japanese Skimmia
    • Rose of Sharon
    • Winter Camellia, C. sasanqua
    • Strawberry Tree, Pacific Madrone
    • Stewartia
    • Torch Lily, Kniphofia uvaria
    • Tree Peonies
    • Tuberous Begonias
    • Virginia Creeper
    • Weigela
    • Winterhazel, Corylopsis
    • Wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
    • Witch Hazel
  • Garden Tour Blogs
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  • October Garden Chores from The Garden Website.com, 2020