I cannot believe my tomato crop

rms1

Last year I bought a tomato plant and although we didn't get many, the tomatoes we got were delicious. At the end of the summer I took the seeds from just 3 tomatoes and dried them out on kitchen paper. I am now looking at 27 mature plants laden with fruit. We can't wait for them to ripen. I can't believe we have all this from just 3 tomatoes.

lizzyb1812

Well done!

And you've just given me a really good idea :j

I have a tomato in a pot that has over 100 tomatoes ripening on it and getting on for the same number of flowers still on it. But I can't remember the variety:eek:

It never occurred to me that I should save the seed, so, thanks to you I'm going to save some seed and try to grow them next year. If they do well it will cut the number of plants I'll need considerably

Lizzy

savingmummy

I think i will try this.
My tomato plants have very few flowers on each plant so im expecting not many fruit from them at all

wayne1983

Ive got quite a few flowers on mine, but tbh mine have gone wild has i never took the side shoots off.
Anyway as ive said before manytimes, im only doing 'topsy turvy' in future as i find them better with no staking and room wise, good luck :beer:

rms1

I am also growing some of the hanging basket variety. The instructions say that there is no need to stake them up but they are getting so heavy that the baskets are tilting and that is before the tomatoes come. I think I may lose these as I can't really think of a way to support them.

Primrose

Well done! I don't know why more people don't save their tomato seeds if they get a particular variety they like. It's so much cheaper than buying the plants from garden centres. You have to beware though that the plant you're saving seed from isn't an F1 variety as seeds from these don't reproduce themselves accurately & won't necessarily be exactly the same as the parent plant. However, that doesn't necessarily matter too much as you'll still get perfectly edible tomatoes.
rms1 - if your tomatoes in your hanging baskets are that heavy, you may have to take them off the hooks and rest them on the ground or rest them on large empty buckets/pots. Some of these tumbling varieties can get very heavy once the tomatoes start forming and it would be a shame to lose them having raised them this far.

rms1

Primrose wrote: »

Well done! I don't know why more people don't save their tomato seeds if they get a particular variety they like. It's so much cheaper than buying the plants from garden centres. You have to beware though that the plant you're saving seed from isn't an F1 variety as seeds from these don't reproduce themselves accurately & won't necessarily be exactly the same as the parent plant. However, that doesn't necessarily matter too much as you'll still get perfectly edible tomatoes.
rms1 - if your tomatoes in your hanging baskets are that heavy, you may have to take them off the hooks and rest them on the ground or rest them on large empty buckets/pots. Some of these tumbling varieties can get very heavy once the tomatoes start forming and it would be a shame to lose them having raised them this far.

Thanks for that suggestion primrose, I think I will take them down and find somewhere on the ground to keep them.

Kay_Peel

I used some half-rotted material from my compost heap in a planter with dwarf green beans. I now find that there are about half a dozen tomato plants amongst them.

Half the fun is waiting to see what kind of tomatoes I've got!

Primrose

Kay - you obviously chucked out a few rotten tomatoes onto your compost heap! This has happened to me too. Two years ago I found several tomato seedlings growing in my compost heap. I pulled them all out except one, which I allowed to thrive and it reproduced a magnificent number of supermarket mini plum tomatoes which had a very nice flavour. So I saved some seeds and am now growing a couple of plants again this year, amongst my other tomato varieties.

nibs

how should I store the seeds till next year and when would I plant them? Thanks..

rms1

I just kept them on the kitchen paper in one of those seal easy bags.