Exactly! It’s like a fisherman teaching people to fish. It doesn’t exactly make sense but when you can continue to purchase different seeds instead of the same varieties every year it’s better for EVERYONE! It’s better for your individual health to have a larger variety & it also increases food diversity to minimize overall crop loss due to unforeseen circumstances. I believe there are big picture reasons for Luke’s methods. 👍
The story of our kitchen scrap garden---- Our back yard slopes down to a forest. For years, we considered this to be an unusable transition area. We have been putting out kitchen scraps and passed-their-prime veggies back there for years for the forest critters. This past spring a storm brought down a tree in the forest and it landed on a tree in this transition area. I cleaned it and continued the once a month habit of running over the area with a weedeater. Well... in July I went back there and started recognizing "things" growing. We now have 7 massive tomato plants loaded down with beautiful fruit, a huge squash garden that I will start harvesting from today, and 4 muscadine vines. The sun gets to the area now so random things deposited in the area are growing. We have now turned the whole area into our garden.
This is why I like to Buy seeds from him. I love to support his channel and his business. It’s good to pay back some of his generosity and kindness that he shares with his viewers. Luke is the best!
I get tons of tomato volunteers. This fall I am going to try to bury some parts of tomatoes with seeds just to see what will happen. I will mark them of course and put them where they will not interfere with my other gardening. To me it is All a learning experience. 3rd year gardener NE Ohio. And my regular tomatoes are done but my volunteers are just starting! 👍😀💥
Especially with cherry and grape tomatoes I just squeeze out the seeds on the ground when there is too much to harvest. But these volunteers come up much later.
I'm going to bury my best and favorite tomatoes this fall, too. I had so many (literally hundreds) of volunteer plants from last year. The only problem was that i didn't know what variety they were!
I did the paper towel method last year with the seed gel from a Wapsipinicon Peach tomato and they sprouted just fine. It was a very overripe tomato. Maybe it fermented on the vine for me.
I have applied this technique a many times in the past. These days for my small yard, I just squeeze some seeds, rub them with paper towel to remove outer coating and dry on same sheet. Note: fungus prevents potential deceaseds and strengthen the seeds.
This is how I save my seeds as well. I label the paper towels with the name of the tomato.I let them dry for a few days on the towel then store in zip lock baggies, paper towel and all. Works well for me.
Great video! I got a message today from you guys that my order has shipped. So excited! I’ve never been disappointed with any order from the past. These how-to videos could t come at a better time with all the “insanity” in the world. Seeds could be like gold.
I am delighted to have stumbled on your RUclips videos. It is particularly important to me because you and I are in the same grow zone (Zone 5). I will tell you that my tomatoes haven't looked this good in years. Thank you.
For the last 5 days I have harvested seeds from various crops and my kitchen counter currently has 6 jars and 4 plates of seeds fermenting and drying. These are all YOUR seeds!! Heirlooms of course. I have various tomato, cucumber and squash. I appreciate all that you do!!👩🌾🍅🥒🫑
Your videos are always such an informative pleasure. It's been a pleasure to watch this channel grow into the humble franchise you've become. Thank you for all that you and your amazing team do for this community.
I can't but think how happy the microbes must have been with all that fermented, moldy tomato slurry! As a microbe farmer, I appreciate such things. I plant seeds; microbes grow plants. That's how we roll here in the desert! (Tucson, AZ)
Just ordered a ton of seeds from your website. So happy to have them to plant for next year! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us all. We are grateful! ❤️
A friend gave me a Lucca tomato plant a few years ago. His mom brought seeds back from Italy. I’ve been saving the seeds every year since because you can’t find the seeds anywhere. I haven’t fermented them at the point of getting mold but have had good luck so far soaking them for a day & rinsing the gel off.
Love all your videos! But all I have to do is leave the tomatoes on the counter till they get a lil mushy and when I open them they are already starting to grow inside the fruit.. I've grown them perfectly fine..
Your videos are always so helpful, and it's awesome to see how excited you are by what you do! I have my very first MIGardener seeds sprouting now (Orange Roussolini tomatoes) and I can't wait to get more. Your passion - not only for what you do, but for helping others love it as well - makes it easy to support your business.
Just watched your video on how to save tomato seed from 10 years ago. Equally helpful, equally informative. Love your channel, love your passion, love your knowledge. Thanks for caring, thanks for sharing.
I never knew about this technique so a big thank you. My ducks 🦆have always provided me with my tomato seedlings. They eat the tomatoes, then out come the seedlings 😮😅😂NO sorry, I mean the seeds! The seedlings come up all over the yard after being processed, I believe, in the 🦆 duck’s tummies! 😄😄 This year I bought some new varieties of tomato 🍅 seeds, as there are so many varieties of tomatoes that we have all never tried.
Love this! I’m so glad to have stopped in right before closing last week. I love that you encourage & teach every possible way to be self sufficient! This info allows me to collect all the heirloom tomato varieties my heart desires & then expand the variety of everything I grow over the next few years. 🙌 I love the empty seed packets you have available to easily label any saved seeds. Such a thoughtful little “homemade” gift for friends & family that garden. 💚🌺
I was just trying to save tomato seeds today without having gone through this process to get the gel off my seeds. Luckily I have more Green Zebra tomatoes so I can do it the right way!! Thanks so much!!
I think you need a bigger sieve, friend. :) Thanks for the seed saving demo at your new shop it was really fun. Also wanted to say I really enjoyed the recent MIgardener newsletter about the farm that is helping you guys bring the Giant Crimson tomatoes to production. I subscribed to their newsletter as well.
Thank you Luke! I did it last year and it was a success. They sprouted nicely this spring. We've been enjoying them this season. I just watched it again as I'll be saving tomato seeds soon.
Can’t wait to save my giant crimson seeds using this method, it’s my favourite way to do it. Please go back to that spot next spring to look for volunteers 😉
Thanks for this video! I am in Michigan as well and we are 6months into our Market Garden adventure. I was literally sitting here saving seeds of our "not so good" tomatoes, when I saw this video. Needless to say I just dumped my Mason jars and now I'm filling up pickle buckets that we get from a local restaurant. Again, awesome timing! Best Jay
Thanks for your videos. I'm always learning and getting new ideas. I've been growing my garden, saving more seeds, been able to grow more of our own food, as well as storing that good food over winter. It's the most satisfying feeling!
My favorite gardening center is closing this year and I’m wondering where I’m going to buy my heirloom tomato plants. I’ve had frustrating experiences trying to go starter veggies at home, but I’m going to give it a go. Thanks for the resources, Luke.
An excellent video - like all of your videos that I have watched - thank you!' i just discovered your channel about two weeks ago searching for a video to show my sister how to grow tomatoes correctly (as we do at our home in Germany). Your channel is one of the many highlights during our vacation here, and I will recommend you to other gardeners and garden channels in Germany, when I return home. Continue to do your exceptionally good work! Thank you!
Thank you so much! Thanks to earlier videos of your encouragement I can proudly report that I have now saved some watermelon seeds from my first watermelon ever grown! As well as some pepper and a Red Sails lettuce variety that I only got as seedlings and wanted to save the seeds for the next season. I was wanting to save tomato seeds too and this video is perfectly timed☺️
Fantastic. First time I see somebody explaining how to get seeds from your own tomatoes. Thank you very much, it has been an eye opener. Good luck in your future.
Luke I like this better than what I have been doing !!! Last 30 yrs been doing beans and tomatoe seeds and cucumber seeds with left over screens from old windows !!!
my roma's and san marzanos' were small this year but there is one or two marzanos that I'm going to try to save the seeds.....learning, learning, learning....thx Mike.
Can this be done on a smaller scale? So if I do this with one tomato in a glass of water? How would this process be done? What day would I change water etc?
I just saw an old video of yours where you did some fun tomato crosses (sun gold and another regular tomato made a golden tomato). You never said how they tasted! How did they turn out? Any other hybrids you tried?
Thank you for this helpful information! The New Sages have been growing heirloom tomatoes in our garden, but tomato seed harvest has been a challenge for us. I am excited to try this method! It's so important to harvest seeds from plants that do well in your growing area!
I root my little cuttings I take from my garden toms in water, plant them in a pot indoors for the winter... that way, I have momma plants to take cuttings from to plant for next season. No seeds necessary and babies r true to the parent plant. 👍 🍅 🍅
Great idea! Do they grow enough to start to produce any tomatoes over the winter? Or do they simply “know” to wait? I tried growing potatoes inside in grow bags under grow lights. Made some beautiful plants by the potato yield was pitiful and small.
@@crystalmorrison4463 no tomatoes, just future babies on a giant momma! I stake her up and just let her grow! Be sure to keep her sunned and plenty of water too 😉 ❤
The nice thing about saving tomato seeds is that you can eat the fruit and save the seed. Other plants have to go past edibility. I saved seeds just yesterday, my timeline was much faster, but on a one fruit at a time basis, it seems to work.
Do you have to leave the tomatoes on the vine until they are very, very ripe before you start the seed saving process? I want to save some of my favorite tomato seeds this year and don't want to mess it up.
Nope, and take this with a grain of salt, but - from experience - you can pull them off the vine as soon as they've completely changed colours and the seeds will be viable.
No - they can even be green. Just let them ripen on the shelf. In fact I usually select half ripened tomatoes for my seeds to steer well clear of any fungus or bacteria from rot.
Having a coating that prevents germination makes total sense to me. When the fruit falls you don't want it to germinate right away because the growing season is almost over and the new plant would die before fruiting and passing on it's genes. So this genius time delay ensures they come up at the right time.
@@montanahomestead2431 Just what I was thinking:) & there’s so many examples in nature-like DNA is an intricate code/language, that must have been created by the Creator/God. Because the odds that Chance& time made it, are in the impossible range.
I bought some romas from the store. Scooped out seeds, put in jar with water and shook them hard. Rinsed then again ,used siv, let them dry on coffee filter. Planted them and they all grew.
Love the video Luke😃 quick question. can you use the pulp and the mold from the top of the buckets straight into the garden Or is it better to compost?
Haha love the smell sometimes too I've got 7 or 8 cups on the go right now! Always buy my heirlooms so I can save them just like this ❤️ Inciardi Paste, Amish Paste, Amana , Great White all on the go right now
Is it okay if during the wet fermentation there is little to no gel left on the seeds? I remove the seeds and strain off the gel when I can tomatoes (since the gel has so much flavor!)
My question is this- I process my tomatoes by steaming/boiling for a few minutes then run them through a machine that separates the skins and seeds from pulp. Can those seeds be dried and used next season? And could a dehydrator be used with drying them? The germination inhibitor is gone from the process with most videos says needs to be gone through fermentation.
Is it possible to be put on the wait list for the Giant Crimson seeds? I've done a little tomato seed saving--on a much smaller scale! Last year I forgot about some of the fermenting tomato seeds--they were seeds from a volunteer I found in my garden late in the season and produced into December. By the time I remembered them, they had all started to sprout. So I planted up a few, they did really well , and they were the first tomatoes to go into my garden last spring, and they were the first produce tomatoes this year.
I collected seeds from my Pozzano Italian tomatoes last year and started them this year. Are all tomatoes good for seed keeping or some of them will not get flowers ?
Curious do the tomatoes for seed need to be fully ripe? I have birds and chipmunks that damage some tomatoes (not always ripe), can I use these for seeds?
Love that Luke as a seed seller makes a how to never buy seeds video, that sir is why I come back to every upload you make
Awe thank you!
Exactly! It’s like a fisherman teaching people to fish. It doesn’t exactly make sense but when you can continue to purchase different seeds instead of the same varieties every year it’s better for EVERYONE! It’s better for your individual health to have a larger variety & it also increases food diversity to minimize overall crop loss due to unforeseen circumstances. I believe there are big picture reasons for Luke’s methods. 👍
When I buy tomatoes for a meal, I would get an extra one if they are a good looking/tasting variey
His seeds are great too! Eating white icicle and black spanish radishes from him as we speak.
Yeah, well done son! You have a genuine heart. Have some love back. ♥️
The story of our kitchen scrap garden---- Our back yard slopes down to a forest. For years, we considered this to be an unusable transition area. We have been putting out kitchen scraps and passed-their-prime veggies back there for years for the forest critters. This past spring a storm brought down a tree in the forest and it landed on a tree in this transition area. I cleaned it and continued the once a month habit of running over the area with a weedeater. Well... in July I went back there and started recognizing "things" growing. We now have 7 massive tomato plants loaded down with beautiful fruit, a huge squash garden that I will start harvesting from today, and 4 muscadine vines. The sun gets to the area now so random things deposited in the area are growing. We have now turned the whole area into our garden.
This is why I like to Buy seeds from him. I love to support his channel and his business. It’s good to pay back some of his generosity and kindness that he shares with his viewers. Luke is the best!
I get tons of tomato volunteers. This fall I am going to try to bury some parts of tomatoes with seeds just to see what will happen. I will mark them of course and put them where they will not interfere with my other gardening. To me it is All a learning experience. 3rd year gardener NE Ohio. And my regular tomatoes are done but my volunteers are just starting! 👍😀💥
Once I planted slices of tomatoes. Each seed grew, it was quite fascinating
Especially with cherry and grape tomatoes I just squeeze out the seeds on the ground when there is too much to harvest. But these volunteers come up much later.
I'm going to bury my best and favorite tomatoes this fall, too. I had so many (literally hundreds) of volunteer plants from last year. The only problem was that i didn't know what variety they were!
I have been wanting to learn exactly how to best save seeds for next year. Thank you MI Gardener!
I had no idea! I was simply setting aside a small number of seeds on a paper towel and drying it. ..then trying to grow the following season.
I did the paper towel method last year with the seed gel from a Wapsipinicon Peach tomato and they sprouted just fine. It was a very overripe tomato. Maybe it fermented on the vine for me.
I have applied this technique a many times in the past. These days for my small yard, I just squeeze some seeds, rub them with paper towel to remove outer coating and dry on same sheet.
Note: fungus prevents potential deceaseds and strengthen the seeds.
This is how I save my seeds as well. I label the paper towels with the name of the tomato.I let them dry for a few days on the towel then store in zip lock baggies, paper towel and all. Works well for me.
Do you ever get any volunteer tomato plants popping up where you dump the fermented gunk from the odd viable seed that sneaks out?
Great video! I got a message today from you guys that my order has shipped. So excited! I’ve never been disappointed with any order from the past.
These how-to videos could t come at a better time with all the “insanity” in the world. Seeds could be like gold.
I am delighted to have stumbled on your RUclips videos. It is particularly important to me because you and I are in the same grow zone (Zone 5). I will tell you that my tomatoes haven't looked this good in years. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing the process. While watching I kept thinking about how great it would be to pour all that tomato water in my compost bins!
For the last 5 days I have harvested seeds from various crops and my kitchen counter currently has 6 jars and 4 plates of seeds fermenting and drying. These are all YOUR seeds!! Heirlooms of course. I have various tomato, cucumber and squash. I appreciate all that you do!!👩🌾🍅🥒🫑
Your videos are always such an informative pleasure. It's been a pleasure to watch this channel grow into the humble franchise you've become. Thank you for all that you and your amazing team do for this community.
I hope to watch more types of vegetables for seed saving .
I can't but think how happy the microbes must have been with all that fermented, moldy tomato slurry! As a microbe farmer, I appreciate such things. I plant seeds; microbes grow plants. That's how we roll here in the desert! (Tucson, AZ)
Just ordered a ton of seeds from your website. So happy to have them to plant for next year! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us all. We are grateful! ❤️
I just cut slices & let them dry. I can break off a piece and plant it. There's always too many starts for me to plant out. 💚🌞
Wow! This is awesome. Trying to save as many as we can here in Texas. The heat made it very difficult this season. Thank you Luke.
I tried once and when my seeds moulded, I thought I had failed. Thanks, Luke! I will try again!
Once I planted slices of tomatoes. All the seeds grew which was quite fascinating.
A friend gave me a Lucca tomato plant a few years ago. His mom brought seeds back from Italy. I’ve been saving the seeds every year since because you can’t find the seeds anywhere. I haven’t fermented them at the point of getting mold but have had good luck so far soaking them for a day & rinsing the gel off.
Love all your videos! But all I have to do is leave the tomatoes on the counter till they get a lil mushy and when I open them they are already starting to grow inside the fruit.. I've grown them perfectly fine..
Your so cute with your hat turned backwards. Seriously. Love that look on my hubby too.
Your videos are always so helpful, and it's awesome to see how excited you are by what you do! I have my very first MIGardener seeds sprouting now (Orange Roussolini tomatoes) and I can't wait to get more. Your passion - not only for what you do, but for helping others love it as well - makes it easy to support your business.
Just watched your video on how to save tomato seed from 10 years ago. Equally helpful, equally informative. Love your channel, love your passion, love your knowledge. Thanks for caring, thanks for sharing.
Very cool video good information can't wait to save my Crimson tomato seeds from my garden.
I never knew about this technique so a big thank you. My ducks 🦆have always provided me with my tomato seedlings. They eat the tomatoes, then out come the seedlings 😮😅😂NO sorry, I mean the seeds! The seedlings come up all over the yard after being processed, I believe, in the 🦆 duck’s tummies! 😄😄 This year I bought some new varieties of tomato 🍅 seeds, as there are so many varieties of tomatoes that we have all never tried.
I choose my best early season tomatoes and do this in a glass bowl, then I strain it through a kitchen strainer. Small scale alternative 😊
Love this! I’m so glad to have stopped in right before closing last week. I love that you encourage & teach every possible way to be self sufficient! This info allows me to collect all the heirloom tomato varieties my heart desires & then expand the variety of everything I grow over the next few years. 🙌 I love the empty seed packets you have available to easily label any saved seeds. Such a thoughtful little “homemade” gift for friends & family that garden. 💚🌺
Saving Seeds is Awesome 🤩 Thanks for sharing your experiences!
I was just trying to save tomato seeds today without having gone through this process to get the gel off my seeds. Luckily I have more Green Zebra tomatoes so I can do it the right way!! Thanks so much!!
I think you need a bigger sieve, friend. :) Thanks for the seed saving demo at your new shop it was really fun. Also wanted to say I really enjoyed the recent MIgardener newsletter about the farm that is helping you guys bring the Giant Crimson tomatoes to production. I subscribed to their newsletter as well.
Thank you Luke! I did it last year and it was a success. They sprouted nicely this spring. We've been enjoying them this season. I just watched it again as I'll be saving tomato seeds soon.
Can’t wait to save my giant crimson seeds using this method, it’s my favourite way to do it.
Please go back to that spot next spring to look for volunteers 😉
Thanks for this video! I am in Michigan as well and we are 6months into our Market Garden adventure. I was literally sitting here saving seeds of our "not so good" tomatoes, when I saw this video. Needless to say I just dumped my Mason jars and now I'm filling up pickle buckets that we get from a local restaurant. Again, awesome timing!
Best
Jay
I was just doing this tonight! Good timing ☺️
love saving seeds I get excited about having my own heirloom, passing it on to my daughter
This dude is straight golden. Yah Bless you and your family in all you put your hands to do.
Thanks for the video luke but i was just wondering about cross pollination do you bag the flowers for pure seed?
Thanks for your videos. I'm always learning and getting new ideas. I've been growing my garden, saving more seeds, been able to grow more of our own food, as well as storing that good food over winter. It's the most satisfying feeling!
My favorite gardening center is closing this year and I’m wondering where I’m going to buy my heirloom tomato plants.
I’ve had frustrating experiences trying to go starter veggies at home, but I’m going to give it a go. Thanks for the resources, Luke.
Thanks!! I totally could do this. I watched a video one day and thought it would be too hard. You made it simple!
The seed jell makes it so tomatoe volunteers are a weed lol in my garden! 🍅✌🏻🙏🏼❤️
An excellent video - like all of your videos that I have watched - thank you!' i just discovered your channel about two weeks ago searching for a video to show my sister how to grow tomatoes correctly (as we do at our home in Germany). Your channel is one of the many highlights during our vacation here, and I will recommend you to other gardeners and garden channels in Germany, when I return home. Continue to do your exceptionally good work! Thank you!
Thank you! I never fermented mine and that's why they didn't grow well. lol. I'm trying this way today.
Thank you so much! Thanks to earlier videos of your encouragement I can proudly report that I have now saved some watermelon seeds from my first watermelon ever grown! As well as some pepper and a Red Sails lettuce variety that I only got as seedlings and wanted to save the seeds for the next season. I was wanting to save tomato seeds too and this video is perfectly timed☺️
Fantastic. First time I see somebody explaining how to get seeds from your own tomatoes. Thank you very much, it has been an eye opener. Good luck in your future.
Hello from New Orleans
Luke I like this better than what I have been doing !!! Last 30 yrs been doing beans and tomatoe seeds and cucumber seeds with left over screens from old windows !!!
You are so generous making a video on saving seeds. I will try and do this next year, but I know Ill also be ordering seeds from you. I cant resist!
Thank you,
Every time I watch you I learn something cool.
This wad so helpful! Others have said use paper plate and I have been so disappointed with that method
my roma's and san marzanos' were small this year but there is one or two marzanos that I'm going to try to save the seeds.....learning, learning, learning....thx Mike.
Thanks Luke so going to try both Methods saving my Heirloom seeds 🍅 😊 👍
Plant life cycle is amazing and you make it exciting. You have taught this suthun boy so much. Thanks!
How do you know this stuff?! Mind bending! Thank you so much for sharing! Looking forward to saving our seeds which originally came from you!!
I'm going to try this with🍅 from a friend's garden.
After the seeds dry, how do I get to store them and have the ready for the next season?
Can this be done on a smaller scale? So if I do this with one tomato in a glass of water? How would this process be done? What day would I change water etc?
Interesting thought, could you freeze dry the seeds after the fermenting process is done?
This is one of those videos that makes you feel satisfied, after watching. Thanks Luke!
I just saw an old video of yours where you did some fun tomato crosses (sun gold and another regular tomato made a golden tomato). You never said how they tasted! How did they turn out? Any other hybrids you tried?
Thank you for this helpful information! The New Sages have been growing heirloom tomatoes in our garden, but tomato seed harvest has been a challenge for us. I am excited to try this method! It's so important to harvest seeds from plants that do well in your growing area!
I root my little cuttings I take from my garden toms in water, plant them in a pot indoors for the winter... that way, I have momma plants to take cuttings from to plant for next season. No seeds necessary and babies r true to the parent plant. 👍 🍅 🍅
Great idea! Do they grow enough to start to produce any tomatoes over the winter? Or do they simply “know” to wait?
I tried growing potatoes inside in grow bags under grow lights. Made some beautiful plants by the potato yield was pitiful and small.
Ooooooh! I love this idea! I've got several varieties that will be great to save. Thanks for the tip!
@@crystalmorrison4463 no tomatoes, just future babies on a giant momma! I stake her up and just let her grow! Be sure to keep her sunned and plenty of water too 😉 ❤
@@noplacelikehome9116 ur welcome ❤ and love ur name 😉 🌎 ❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘 👍 😊 🏡
Thank you Luke for this great video. One question, why don’t you save the fermented water for the compost heap?
The nice thing about saving tomato seeds is that you can eat the fruit and save the seed. Other plants have to go past edibility. I saved seeds just yesterday, my timeline was much faster, but on a one fruit at a time basis, it seems to work.
Backwards hat 😍!!! Amazing and simple seed saving process.
Do you have to leave the tomatoes on the vine until they are very, very ripe before you start the seed saving process? I want to save some of my favorite tomato seeds this year and don't want to mess it up.
Nope, and take this with a grain of salt, but - from experience - you can pull them off the vine as soon as they've completely changed colours and the seeds will be viable.
No - they can even be green. Just let them ripen on the shelf. In fact I usually select half ripened tomatoes for my seeds to steer well clear of any fungus or bacteria from rot.
Love your channel btw, it's my favorite and most trusted channel.
Thanks Luke. I started this tonight.
While fermenting, lids on or lids off the container?
Luke, why not use a piece of window screen on a frame to dry them?
Having a coating that prevents germination makes total sense to me. When the fruit falls you don't want it to germinate right away because the growing season is almost over and the new plant would die before fruiting and passing on it's genes. So this genius time delay ensures they come up at the right time.
Almost like someone designed it that way 😄
@@montanahomestead2431 Just what I was thinking:) & there’s so many examples in nature-like DNA is an intricate code/language, that must have been created by the Creator/God. Because the odds that Chance& time made it, are in the impossible range.
@@coleen2213 amen!
@@coleen2213 I think it's the fact that all of this can happen from a primaeval block of acids that is the most fascinating.
Great video!..thanks!
I bought some romas from the store. Scooped out seeds, put in jar with water and shook them hard. Rinsed then again ,used siv, let them dry on coffee filter. Planted them and they all grew.
Love the video Luke😃 quick question. can you use the pulp and the mold from the top of the buckets straight into the garden Or is it better to compost?
Haha love the smell sometimes too I've got 7 or 8 cups on the go right now! Always buy my heirlooms so I can save them just like this ❤️ Inciardi Paste, Amish Paste, Amana , Great White all on the go right now
Fabulous!! I’m going to save! Save! Save! Thanks.
How do you prevent from cross pollination?
Thanks so much 👍👍
I'm definitely going to start seed saving.
Is it okay if during the wet fermentation there is little to no gel left on the seeds? I remove the seeds and strain off the gel when I can tomatoes (since the gel has so much flavor!)
Hi!!! Did you just freeze the insides until you’re ready to do this???
Perfect time for this how to!
My question is this- I process my tomatoes by steaming/boiling for a few minutes then run them through a machine that separates the skins and seeds from pulp. Can those seeds be dried and used next season? And could a dehydrator be used with drying them? The germination inhibitor is gone from the process with most videos says needs to be gone through fermentation.
Have you ever had a random lil 'mater plant come up in this little side yard? :) :)
Is it possible to be put on the wait list for the Giant Crimson seeds?
I've done a little tomato seed saving--on a much smaller scale! Last year I forgot about some of the fermenting tomato seeds--they were seeds from a volunteer I found in my garden late in the season and produced into December. By the time I remembered them, they had all started to sprout. So I planted up a few, they did really well , and they were the first tomatoes to go into my garden last spring, and they were the first produce tomatoes this year.
I collected seeds from my Pozzano Italian tomatoes last year and started them this year. Are all tomatoes good for seed keeping or some of them will not get flowers ?
Curious do the tomatoes for seed need to be fully ripe? I have birds and chipmunks that damage some tomatoes (not always ripe), can I use these for seeds?
I asked...and received! 😄 Thanks, Luke!
Thank you so much for that information. That was very interesting. I always enjoy watching your videos👍
Do I put a top on the container? Leave inside or outside?
Can the mold and poor off be used in compost?
I just did this and after 3 days in the water some varieties had sprouted!
Luke, do the buckets have to be food grade?
How long do you ferment it
Thank you so much for making this video. Can’t wait to try this.
Thank you Luke. This is very informative
You always put out a great video! Thanks again!!
does saving seeds change your tomatos next year i though it did