Growing tomatoes from ripe fruit is a mysterious journey involving either total neglect or more time-consuming mouldy decay.
Method 1
Unceremoniously dump ripe tomatoes onto your garden plot, and leave them to rot. Gardening books make me look like a liar, but every year I have a batch of seedlings who sprout from my discarded heirloom cherry tomatoes. I also grow a backup batch using Method 2, just in case.
Method 2
• Choose very ripe tomatoes, or let ripen in a warm spot beside other fruit, such as bananas.
• Slice the tomatoes in half and squeeze out the juice with seeds into a very small container.
• Let sit on the counter 3-5 days until covered by mold, but not dry.
• Rince moldy, seedy mess over a fine mesh sieve until only the seeds remain (sometimes they will sprout if left moist at this stage).
• Let dry and plant in full sun after last frost.
Regrowth Result
Will thrive and produce fruit.Tip
Avoid Frankenfoods: sprout only seeds from organic, therefore non-GMO, tomatoes
