Author: John Thomas

I love growing my tomatoes from seed, but when I was a novice gardener, I didn’t really know what to do. Should I buy seeds from my local garden center? Or purchase seeds from an online seed supplier? One day, after a trip to the local farm market, I was prepping some fresh tomatoes for…

Have you ever opened a can of whole tomatoes, taken a tomato out, and wondered, ”Can I plant these seeds?” If you’ve ever wondered about planting canned tomato seeds, there’s no need to do any more googling since I conducted an experiment recently to see, once and for all, if I could germinate a single…

Have you ever wondered if you could just take a whole tomato and plant it in the ground instead of scooping out the seeds and planting them individually. Would this actually work, or would the tomato simply rot beneath the soil? Planting whole tomatoes will produce new tomato plants, which is how tomatoes have naturally…

If you’ve ever grown tomatoes from seed, you’ve likely experienced some of the frustrations I’ve experienced over the years. You plant your seeds, you make sure the planting soil stays moist, and you wait for tomato seedlings to pop out of the ground. Then a week or so goes by and…it’s not what you expected….

I love growing tomatoes, especially tomato varieties that you can’t find in stores. Sometimes I’ll purchase heirloom seeds. Other times I’ll buy hybrid seeds. But many years ago, when I was still a novice gardener, I wondered what would happen if I harvested seeds from a hybrid tomato plant, then planted them the following season….

Have you ever found a package of seeds in your seed stash and couldn’t remember what seeds they were? Or noticed a volunteer plant sprout up in your garden and couldn’t readily identify it? If any of this sounds familiar, then this is the article for you since I’m going to lay out, as simply…