Tomato Seed Planting

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Tomato Seed Planting

Yesterday I planted my heritage tomato seeds that I bought from the Real Seeds Company, 22 rare varieties! I have never grown a tomato plant from seed before so I’m excited for this little project. I used compostable seed trays, filled with an organic soilless potting mix. Using a pencil I made two small holes in each pot, and placed one seed in each hole (2 seeds per pot). Then covered it up with a layer of the soil mix and gently compressed the top with my fingers. I labelled each row using a wooden lolly pop sticks (are they still called this 🤷‍♀️). Sprinkled water on top with my water spray, spraying is better than pouring water on them as they can get soggy easily and the seeds may rot. They’re now living happily (🤞) in the hottest room in the house (laundry room).

Here is a list of all the tomato seed varieties I planted:  

FERAD

Turkish red vine tomato

FEO DE RIOGORO

Large vine tomato from the south of Spain

AMISH PASTE

Giant red plum tomato from the Amish community

PURPLE UKRAINE

Large, purple plum tomato from Ukraine

ETHEL WATKINS BEST

Early short, large red vine tomato

WENTZELL

Short vine tomato, extremely tasty! Very rare beefsteak tomato

ORANGE BANANA

Very productive plum tomato, orange in colour

JENS TANGERINE

Brilliant tangerine-colour, large cherry tomato

ROSE DE BERNE

Big pink vine salad tomato, high yield, very tasty

MILLEFLEUR

Yellow vine tomato, hundreds of little translucent yellow tomatoes

BLUE FIRE

A very rare red and black vine tomato with gold splashes

STUPICE

Early red vine tomatoes from Eastern Europe (1954)

MUCHO MIEL

Large round, very sweet and juicy tomato from Jose Confitas in Spain

PECHE VILMORIN ANDRIEUX

Unusual peach-type tomato, with blushed pink fruit. From the famous Vilmorin collection in the early 1800s

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