How Do You Save Heirloom Tomato Seeds?
Saving heirloom tomato seeds is very easy and uses the same process as saving hybrid tomato seeds. Saving heirloom tomato seeds is a convenient way to harness the goodness of that one tomato that you put in your mouth, and it just exploded with flavor! Hi It’s John from growing-tomatoes-made-easy.com again! Save that last slice of tomato and preserve those seeds to grow a bounty of that tomato all for yourself! Normally when you save seeds from other plants, you simply let the plant dry and collect the seeds. Not so with the tomato! Tomato seeds are encapsulated by a moist and sticky, gelatin-like casing that contains germination inhibitors. These germination inhibitors prevent the seed from sprouting inside the tomato. In nature, when the fruit falls off the vine, it hits the ground, rots and ferments. This is the way nature gets rid of the germination inhibitors to release the seed to sprout another plant. We can mimic the same process and save our favorite tomato seeds for future pl
