You are being LIED to about saving and growing seeds for your garden

A successful Garden starts with high quality seeds. Using the the right techniques and methods is what will lead to bigger healthier plants and ultimately bigger harvests.

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[melanielinkous]

My Dad died two years ago and I came across some tomato seeds he had saved from a particularly tasty grocery store tomato. I've been growing them and it feels good. Planning on saving the rest of the seeds for my kids, since they loved their grandpa so much.

[michelguevara]

45 years of gardening, and I see 90% nonsense on the internet.
keep up the good work!

[lindachandler]

I tried fermenting seeds. It works. Too much trouble. I've done this for a loooong time and it works just fine. Find the tomato you want to save seeds from. When you slice the tomato for eating, smear a few of the seeds on a paper towel; no washing, no fermenting, just smear. Dry seeds and paper towel very dry. Put them in a zip lock bag. Store in a dark place or even freeze them til next year. When ready to plant, lay the paper towel or bits of the paper towel on the prepared dirt and cover lightly. Keep moist, until they sprout. They always sprout; every single seed.

[sunnysideup]

My grandmother had a continuous tomatoe garden in the same spot for decades. She never trimmed or staked the vines. They sprawled everywhere and grew some of the best tomatoes for fresh eating and canning. She would leave lots of ripe ones on the vines to self sow for the next growing season.

[TrapperAaron]

Really good info. Just like my grandparents taught me. Also people dont realize how long properly prepared seeds last. I have seeds 30+ years old, that still reliably sprout and grow into full producing plants

[alexgrover]

I have a degree in horticulture and have worked in the business for over twenty years. It makes me so happy to see you giving good advice and explaining why doing things the right way helps.

Keep up the good work!

[RoseRose-exqy]

I have been seed saving for 40 years. I used to tie different coloured ribbons to the plants I wanted to save seed from. I selected the strongest, (red ribbon) the earliest fruiting, (green ribbon) the most prolific (yellow) and the best tasting (blue). I don't do the ribbon thing any more though. Several years of each selection cross pollinating has given perfect results.
I have always spread seeds like tomato or capsicum (bell peppers for Americans) onto toilet paper, then left on the window sill inside the house to dry. (no fermentation)
By the end of our Australian summer, the seeds are drier than an Arab's sand shoes. Come Spring, I merely rub the toilet-tissue-covered seeds in my hands then plant them. A little bit of toilet paper won't stop them from growing, and if I happen to plant several of them in a clump, I can transplant them later.
Thanks for the great vid...

[bizzybee]

💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 Love Tuck! I just got finished watching another gardener who picked her ornamental/flint corn, it was the "bloody butcher" heirloom variety I believe, she showed all the pretty ears and then she showed the ears that were sparse and didn't fill out and she said "but these won't go to waste, because I will save them for seeds that I sell to all of you" I left her a comment and said, "I would not buy seed from you because every good gardener knows you only save the seeds from your very best vegetables and fruits. You never save seed from vegetables that came out deformed, or vegetables that are the smallest, sickly, or not your very best." You hit the nail on the head when you spoke about people misinforming others about saving seeds.

[wyattshook]

I love this guy, so positive, always walking through what seems like an endless garden of perfection

[bradenveddis]

“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”
― Henry David Thoreau

Fabulous! Love you, Tuck and James. I have learned so much from this channel!

[cf]

I never fail to learn something in your videos, James. The same goes for your fans. Thanks for the envelope seed keeping method. I’m 66 years old and I don’t believe that you can’t learn from the young. They may not have as much life experience but, I guarantee you, there’s a lot of really ingenious ideas from young people. I planted a garden a few weeks ago with the help of my nephew, his wife and their children. I just marveled at how much I learned that day from my 10 year old great niece and her family. My garden looks beautiful, by the way. I wasn’t blessed with a green thumb, so I’ll take all the help I can get!

[kistuszek]

Lately i "grow" some tomatoes that sprout in the hens yard from
scraps that the hens got. I dont know which variety started it but now
they have around an inch in diameter fruits and healthy strong and
kinda compact plants. They produce like crazy and the fruits ripen really
fast. By the time my other tomatoes die off they just keep going
literally to the frost. Nice bite sized juicy tomatoes.
This year we had stink bugs ruining the garden. Its a new thing here. But the "wild"
tomatoes are surviving well and since the fruits grow and ripen quick
the bugs dont do much damage in them. These are now my favourite
tomatoes since literally they grow themselves. We did not touch them at
all until we started harvesting them. And they sprout again each year
from the fallen fruits. Meanwhile the hens garden the place. Sweet deal!
:)

[maryjtrue]

I have always put my dry seeds in a paper envelope. Plastic bags can rot the seeds if there is any moisture.

[TrapperAaron]

One last quip. Never underestimate the power of gifts from the compost pile. Some of the best plants i have ever grown came from compost surprise plants. Also seeds from hybrids can produce some amazing fruits. That flovorless tomato matter they sell in stores can provide some amazingly delicious fruits, they will probably be de-hybridized (not the same as the fruit they came from, see mendel and his peas) but thats where the magic lies.

[hauparedesfamily]

Hi everyone! I must be the exception that makes the rule. Every year I buy my tomato plants at the garden center but this year I saw that video and went and bought a few different kinds of organic tomatoes at the grocery store and saved a slice of them from the salad preparation and put them in soil. Maybe beginner's luck, this season from those slices I planted 13 tomato plants of three different varieties. Beautiful, strong plants that have produced kilos and kilos of tomatoes. I said strong because they are still producing and I live in southern Ontario, we have a couple weekends with night temperatures on the 5°C and I thought that was it but they are still here. Again, maybe beginner's luck.
Definitely I'm using these techniques to save seeds from these great plants for next year. Wish me luck. Happy gardening next year everyone!!!

[ponchovanillabean]

Yes, this is an efficient and accepted method for saving seeds. I've done similar for years. I've also just stomped on tomatoes where I want them to be growing next year, and they grew. Usually better than those that were nurtured from the sprouting of the saved seeds. Why? Likely because only the strongest survived. I have learned that survival rate without much effort is more important than germination rate. Why do you think a plant produces so many seeds? To criticize the method of just putting a piece of raw tomato in the ground as wrong is not prudent. It DOES work. As you gain more experience in gardening and learn more about cooperating with nature, you will find that mold is not an enemy.

[lindawinter]

Love seeing your dog. Ours dies 2 weeks ago and this soothed my soul watching him in your garden. Plus felt the endorphins as you were stroking him. Thanks for sharing him along with your wonderful seed tips!

[RC-blpm]

I used to buy my tomatoes as plants from the nursery. Now I'm starting my own inside in the spring. In the future I will save my own seeds and be completely self sufficient! Thanks James!

[SL-uqsx]

One time after using some tomatoes for cooking, I threw the seeds attached to the part of tomatoe where the stem meet, into a few of my plant pots as a top compost thing. All the seeds were sprouting after a few weeks. We weren't sure what was growing until the sprouts grew real leafs to realize they were tomatoes.

[Fastlane]

This is exactly how I have been saving my tomato seeds. I am very interested in learning how to save the more difficult vegitables, like carrots, lettuce, etc.