Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net>]

The link opens with how to save tomato seeds and I have to notice that 
my own method is much simpler and 100 % effective. I can't understand 
why anybody would go to the trouble of fermenting tomato seeds.

My method consists of the following actions : When we eat an especially 
tasty tomato that we want to save seed from I keep most of the seeds in 
my mouth and then lick them onto a thin tissue (a fresh roll of toilet 
paper being ideal). You can easily space out the seeds on the paper with 
a bit of practise but I will get on average 40-50 seeds onto one sheet.
Then I let paper and seeds dry after writing down date, variety and 
possibly other details I want to remember on the paper. When fully dry 
this paper with seeds is stored in a small zip lock bag.

At planting time I fill a tray with compost and put the layer of tissue 
with the seeds on it on top of that compost. Put half an inch of compost 
op top, water and put in a warm place. I almost always get 100% 
germination and by the time the seedlings need to be potted on or 
transplanted all trace of toilet paper has disappeared.

This method saves a lot of time since you don't need to be scraping 
seeds of paper and afterwards you don't need to space out the seeds on 
their growing medium.

Unfortunately there seems to be a quite general taboo against the word 
toilet paper that will close most peoples mind to what I have written here.
John

On 18/04/15 03:13, herb farmer wrote:
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