Growing tomatoes

RobM99

100 St. Pierre tomato seeds  less than £3!   In my basket!

thriftwizard

From whom, please?

RobM99

B&M but as they are Mr. Fothergill seeds, they should be available most places. Shimmer though were £2.60 for 12! 

bouicca21

My friend got hers even cheaper than that.  She saved the seeds from a tomato.

London_1

bouicca21 said:

My friend got hers even cheaper than that.  She saved the seeds from a tomato.

My late ma-in-law used to do that every year and she grew some super tomatoes . But then she grew virtually everything my late husband would eat as a boy growing up. They lived in a cottage on the IoW with two thirds of an acre and she had been widowed at 28 in 1937with thre little boys under 4 so money was extremely tight . But bless her she was a very determined lady  and refused as she said 'to go on the parish' Everything she could grow to eat she did ,but the effect was that when my husband and I married he loathed and detested veg, and would only eat processed peas ,which he discovered and fell in love with when he went into the RAF in 1951.
Needless to say bless her, she blamed me for him not eating veg yet I will eat almost anything put in front of me and told her so.She was convinced that her son marrying a londoner had changed his ways from being a country boy  

JackieO xx

RobM99

bouicca21 said:

My friend got hers even cheaper than that.  She saved the seeds from a tomato.

Same here but that doesn't get you new varieties.

Woolsery

Tomatoes are very personal and the differences between them range from subtle to immense, so knowing what you want from a particular variety is helpful, but not conclusive. For example, if the need is to grow outdoors, then some varieties won't work well for you. However, if you find a good fast-ripening tomato for a short British season, it might not taste right to you....and so on. It doesn't matter what others say, it's your taste buds that count!

I pay about £2 - £3 for ten seeds of F1 varieties I like, or if they're non-hybrid then I pay nothing because I'll have seeds saved. If really strapped for cash in a particular year, I'd know the F1s come reasonably true from seed, so I'd make a saving there. I wouldn't recommend repeating it year-on-year, indefinitely, though.

JIL

RobM99 said:

bouicca21 said:

My friend got hers even cheaper than that.  She saved the seeds from a tomato.

Same here but that doesn't get you new varieties.

Hence the reason tomato plants are often seen growing around sewage processing sites.

Rosa_Damascena

Woolsery said:

Tomatoes are very personal and the differences between them range from subtle to immense, so knowing what you want from a particular variety is helpful, but not conclusive. For example, if the need is to grow outdoors, then some varieties won't work well for you. However, if you find a good fast-ripening tomato for a short British season, it might not taste right to you....and so on. It doesn't matter what others say, it's your taste buds that count!

I pay about £2 - £3 for ten seeds of F1 varieties I like, or if they're non-hybrid then I pay nothing because I'll have seeds saved. If really strapped for cash in a particular year, I'd know the F1s come reasonably true from seed, so I'd make a saving there. I wouldn't recommend repeating it year-on-year, indefinitely, though.

Tomatoes are very important to you 

Woolsery

Rosa_Damascena said:

Woolsery said:

Tomatoes are very personal and the differences between them range from subtle to immense, so knowing what you want from a particular variety is helpful, but not conclusive. For example, if the need is to grow outdoors, then some varieties won't work well for you. However, if you find a good fast-ripening tomato for a short British season, it might not taste right to you....and so on. It doesn't matter what others say, it's your taste buds that count!

I pay about £2 - £3 for ten seeds of F1 varieties I like, or if they're non-hybrid then I pay nothing because I'll have seeds saved. If really strapped for cash in a particular year, I'd know the F1s come reasonably true from seed, so I'd make a saving there. I wouldn't recommend repeating it year-on-year, indefinitely, though.

Tomatoes are very important to you 

Sorry, that's entirely lost on me, but maybe there's a deeper meaning I'm not getting?

The point I was making, obviously badly, is that with anything highly variable and home-grown, the cost of the raw material is only one aspect of success.

Paspatur

Woolsery said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Tomatoes are very important to you 

Sorry, that's entirely lost on me, but maybe there's a deeper meaning I'm not getting?

The point I was making, obviously badly, is that with anything highly variable and home-grown, the cost of the raw material is only one aspect of success.

Woolsery, did you click it? It is a link to a Friends episode about tomatoes. Must admit I didn't watch it as not interested in junk tv