Make your own tomato seeds (2018)

It's late August, so it's time to think of what plants we want to take indoors, and for other plants time to take seeds for next year's harvest.
Seeds we make from own plants are free, and we know the taste of the fruit.
It's goes hand in hand with beeing selfsufficient.

I've found another more easy way to save money on tomato seeds.
It's not the first time I try this, but the other years it was much more time demanding.

Use some tomatoes you can't eat anyway. But select "the best of the bad".
Referring to the picture, I throw away all the tomatoes to the right.

Prepare a large bowl of water (approximately room temperature)
Squeeze the tomatoes into the water, remove as much as you can.

Next day remove the zest and whatever you are able to remove. 

Sift the water from the bowl.
Now slam the sift hard onto a piece of kitchen towel, and remove potential leftovers of tomato fruit.

There you go:
Free tomato seeds, no waste, just the spirit of self sufficiency.

Collect Your Own Seeds - It's Free

It's easy to collect your own seeds for next year. I try to collect as many types as possible, since seeds can be quite expensive, but also cause its the way to do it to be self sufficient.

A couple of days ago - on a rainy day - I prepared seeds for tomatoes and pepper. I took some seeds from store bought fruits.
I put the seeds onto pieces of kitchen towel to let them dry for a couple of days.
The reason I use kitchen towel is, that it dissolves easily. Seeds from tomatoes for instance, will stick to any surface, so when the seeds are dry, they are like glued to the surface. Thats okay, cause when using kitchen towel (or toilet paper) You can just cut or snip your homemade seeds off the paper.

I store my seeds in anything, as long as its made from paper. An old envelope, folded paper etc. NO plastic bags or similar, if the seeds are not dry enough, they will rot.  

Allways remember to mark the seeds, and there You go :-) Homemade seeds for the kitchen garden ready to use next year :-)