Posted on 07/29/2016 2:22:50 PM PDT by greeneyes
About all I can contribute is I have been saving tomato seeds for more years than I can count. I never plant them fresh however I dry them on a paper towel and save for the next year. I always have healthy beautiful productive plants. The seeds do stick to the paper towel but you can plant the paper towel as a sheet if you like or cut up, he paper bits break down quickly.
Yeah, I also used paper towel on the latest. Those are still 2-3 weeks out from popping up. But yes, they were wet.
I had been drying some but sent them off to a friend.
Keeping them in the cold over the winter also helps. We have an attached garage (west Michigan). Great for seed storage and making kraut :)
Planning on trying to save a few things over the winter. I’ll try it!
I put my seeds in envelopes, label well (that’s important)and keep them in an old floppy disk double bin. Mice can’t get in and it’s not airtight.
I have no idea. I’ve never grown tomatoes from ‘wet’ seed before.
Yellowing leaves are a nutrition issue...if you didn’t start fertilizing the seedlings when they had their first set of ‘true’ leaves, then that may be the issue.
Brown leaves are either disease or bad watering practices.
Really can’t tell without seeing the plants. How much longer is your growing season? Do you have another 90+ days to grow these to maturity?
I think I can last into October, no problem.
I’m figuring too much water - small planter had drainage issues (had almost as bad with pepper plants but they’re doing OK - soil smelled bad - I’m drying out that particular soil in the back in the Sun all day).
Everything transplanted to better planters with fresh planting soil - except I kept the small patch they were in to minimize transplant shock. We’ll see if better drainage fixes it.
I still have some bone meal left if that will help.
No bone meal until they start flowering and setting fruit. :)
Thanks, will do. Made some eggs earlier this week - quite a few egg shells got crushed and spread around though.
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Hubby has added an air rifle to his options, but since Raccoons are nocturnal, he’s still thinking traps. We will see what happens to my corn in September. It is right next to the patio, and there is sufficient light from the house, that it may not venture forth.
I’m thinking about getting one of those motion detectors that flash on a light or noise for my little patch. He planted his corn this year on the back forty. Raccoons got his grapes several years ago, but did not bother the corn that was closer to the house.
Sounds good to me! I’ve been busy trying to catch up on the canning, but as soon as I think I am, Hubby takes a notion to harvest something else.
LOL. Cleaning up the kitchen. I agree. Plus, I am kinda OCD about the kitchen, and have to clean, sweep, and mop before I start, and again after.
As long as I am not cooking or canning, though I don’t really care too much about the kitchen clean-so that’s weird isn’t it?
I created a recipe of salsa too - it was way to spicy hot, so I have to dump one cup into a pint of sour cream to make a dip.
At the store, I picked up some Mrs. Wages mild and will try that with just plain bell peppers and see how it turns out. I’m going to use some Romas that I froze last year, since we have almost no tomatoes this year.
Our potatoes did not do as well this year as in the past. They were growing great and then just sort of quit before they got very big. Not sure if it was too cool and too wet or what.
Well, I don’t think they liked them. Took one bite and left them on the patio.
I’m always interested in recipes. I finally just pinched the tips off of a couple of my tomato plants that are in the buckets.
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