This is the second year I’ve started tomatoes from seed I collected. I didn’t write down the variety when I collected the seeds because I thought I’d remember by the color of the goo. I had red, green and purple. I didn’t think about the goo being gone.
So I know the plants are one of three variety’s anyway.
Just like last year, I thought I’ll just plant a couple and get them started in the window. Well, the seeds are so little, I keep planting. I ended up with 32 tomato babies.
I thought what am I going to do with that many plants? I shouldn’t have fretted. I gave my daughter 8 for her and her friends. I planted 8 and lost 7 due to a late freeze. I planted 3 along my back fence at home and one of the chickens figured out how to get under the chicken wire, the hen sat on one. I gave 4 more to friends. And 2 in my new area at home.
OK so maybe 32 tomato babies weren’t too much.
You know what else I like to do? I like to take the part I pinch off and see if I can propagate that as well. So I have 6 new tomato babies to care for in my window.
