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Saving Tomato Seeds! 🍅🌱 Tomatoes are some of my favourite crops to grow in the vegetable garden and saving your own seeds is super simple and satisfying too! 😊🍅 First, always try to select the best and fully ripe tomatoes to save from, and choose only un-hybridised open pollinated varieties, so avoid any with an F1 on the packet as they won’t reproduce true to variety. 🌱😕 If saving seed from a larger variety, like beefsteak, I would slice the tomato in half and open it up to reveal the seed cavities, then scoop out the seeds with a spoon or something similar and add to a glass jar or cup. 🫙🍅 If saving from a cherry tomato, it’s super simple, just give them a good squeeze. 🍅👌🏼 Top up the container with water to aid in fermentation, this will remove the germination inhibiting substance that surrounds the seed. 😊👍🏻 Then cover with a cloth or something similar to prevent fruit flies and odour and let sit for 3-4 days. I always make a nice pasata sauce with the left over tomatoes. 🍅😋 If mould develops, don’t worry that’s normal, but remove any seeds that float and then add more water and rinse and pour until the water runs clear. 💦🍅 Then pour through a fine strainer, give them a quick rinse to remove any of the remaining pulp and lay them out onto a plate or paper, spacing them apart before letting them dry for a couple of days. The seed will then be ready to be stored for next year, and I just pop them in a craft envelope and label. 😊👍🏻🍅🌱 So do you save your own tomato seeds? #seedsaving #growyourownfood #vegetablegarden #gardeningtips #organicgardening 03/24/2025

Saving Tomato Seeds! 🍅🌱 Tomatoes are some of my favourite crops to grow in the vegetable garden and saving your own seeds is super simple and satisfying too! 😊🍅 First, always try to select the best and fully ripe tomatoes to save from, and choose only un-hybridised open pollinated varieties, so avoid any with an F1 on the packet as they won’t reproduce true to variety. 🌱😕 If saving seed from a larger variety, like beefsteak, I would slice the tomato in half and open it up to reveal the seed cavities, then scoop out the seeds with a spoon or something similar and add to a glass jar or cup. 🫙🍅 If saving from a cherry tomato, it’s super simple, just give them a good squeeze. 🍅👌🏼 Top up the container with water to aid in fermentation, this will remove the germination inhibiting substance that surrounds the seed. 😊👍🏻 Then cover with a cloth or something similar to prevent fruit flies and odour and let sit for 3-4 days. I always make a nice pasata sauce with the left over tomatoes. 🍅😋 If mould develops, don’t worry that’s normal, but remove any seeds that float and then add more water and rinse and pour until the water runs clear. 💦🍅 Then pour through a fine strainer, give them a quick rinse to remove any of the remaining pulp and lay them out onto a plate or paper, spacing them apart before letting them dry for a couple of days. The seed will then be ready to be stored for next year, and I just pop them in a craft envelope and label. 😊👍🏻🍅🌱 So do you save your own tomato seeds? #seedsaving #growyourownfood #vegetablegarden #gardeningtips #organicgardening

👇 Three sisters WORKS. Our industrial agricultural system has billions of dollars of investment into RnD, GMOs, fertilizers and the “best” scientists. And yet, Three Sisters consistently and reproducibly grows more biomass per acre than a monoculture. It also does this WITHOUT fertilizers, pesticides and it actually improves the health of the soil every year. How? Three Sisters leverages "niche complementarity," where each plant benefits the others: beans fix nitrogen, corn provides a structure for beans to climb, and squash acts as ground cover, reducing weeds and moisture loss. 🤓 Fun fact: there was also a 4th sister that was sometimes used. Can you guess what it is? (Hint, it’s a tall flower that was used to help attract pollinators and beneficial insects) The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) developed this system in what is now called North America. Using keen observation, and understanding the connected nature of all things, the Iroquois were able to develop a system that produced more nutrition per acre, didn’t deplete the soils, helped biodiversity and stored more carbon in the soil. They also figured out nixtamalization, which transforms corn’s nutritional profile and makes the vitamin B3 available to humans. Without this, corn on it’s own would eventually deprive your body of B3. Polycultures can provide all the nutrients humans actually need to survive. Growing polycultures makes sense if you want to feed humans. Growing monocultures makes sense if you want to raise corn futures on the stock exchange. So why are we still growing monocultures? We’re losing top soil at alarming rates, causing algae blooms in the ocean, and the nutrient and mineral content of our vegetables continues to drop even as we use MORE fertilzers. Something has to change. Indigenous cultures across the globe had already figured out regenerative systems, well before colonization. So why are we not learning from their successes? Why do we continue down this destructive path and ignore indigenous knowledge? #permaculture #companionplanting #threesisters #organicgardening #regenerativeagriculture 03/24/2025

👇 Three sisters WORKS. Our industrial agricultural system has billions of dollars of investment into RnD, GMOs, fertilizers and the “best” scientists. And yet, Three Sisters consistently and reproducibly grows more biomass per acre than a monoculture. It also does this WITHOUT fertilizers, pesticides and it actually improves the health of the soil every year. How? Three Sisters leverages "niche complementarity," where each plant benefits the others: beans fix nitrogen, corn provides a structure for beans to climb, and squash acts as ground cover, reducing weeds and moisture loss. 🤓 Fun fact: there was also a 4th sister that was sometimes used. Can you guess what it is? (Hint, it’s a tall flower that was used to help attract pollinators and beneficial insects) The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) developed this system in what is now called North America. Using keen observation, and understanding the connected nature of all things, the Iroquois were able to develop a system that produced more nutrition per acre, didn’t deplete the soils, helped biodiversity and stored more carbon in the soil. They also figured out nixtamalization, which transforms corn’s nutritional profile and makes the vitamin B3 available to humans. Without this, corn on it’s own would eventually deprive your body of B3. Polycultures can provide all the nutrients humans actually need to survive. Growing polycultures makes sense if you want to feed humans. Growing monocultures makes sense if you want to raise corn futures on the stock exchange. So why are we still growing monocultures? We’re losing top soil at alarming rates, causing algae blooms in the ocean, and the nutrient and mineral content of our vegetables continues to drop even as we use MORE fertilzers. Something has to change. Indigenous cultures across the globe had already figured out regenerative systems, well before colonization. So why are we not learning from their successes? Why do we continue down this destructive path and ignore indigenous knowledge? #permaculture #companionplanting #threesisters #organicgardening #regenerativeagriculture

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