Tomato Plants from Seedshow to grow tomato plants from seeds

• Seed Savers Exchange
• Heirloom Variety
• Grape Tomato
• 50 Seeds per packet
• Green Tomato

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A new favorite! Unique grape-like yellowish-green cherry tomatoes on extremely productive, bushy plants. Hard to stop eating, addictive, spicy, full-flavored, sweet 1″ fruits. Indeterminate, 80-90 days from transplant…. More >>

Green Grape Tomato Seeds

Fall Gardening: Late growing tomatoes

If the weatherman calls for a light frost, cover your tomato plants during the night and remove the cover during the day. The leaves might die off or turn brownish, but the tomatoes will continue to grow and ripen. If a killing frost is predicted then harvest your tomatoes.

Fall gardening will often leave you with both ripe and green tomatoes. Pick them all and divide into all green, partially ripened and almost ripe ones.

Green tomatoes should be picked and checked for soft spots or bug damages. The larger tomatoes can then be washed and dried. While they are drying, gather some small cardboard flats, newspaper and paper towels. You can cut cardboard boxes to create the flats.

When the tomatoes have dried, separate them into the same or nearly the same size, and then divide again by their green coloring. Cover the bottom of your cardboard flat with a single sheet of paper towels. Next start with one tomato, wrap a rolled newspaper around the sides, place your next tomato and wrap it with newspaper so the tomatoes do not physically touch each other. Take this flat and put it into a dark, cool basement. Cover the top with a single layer of newspaper. DO not stack any other flats on top of these. Do this with all your green undamaged larger size tomatoes. Keep the lighter green tomatoes together as they will ripen first.

Check your flats once a week by watching the color of the tomato turn from green to pink or yellow/pink and red. Remove the tomatoes from the flats when they start to turn pink and allow them to sit on a plate on your counter to finish ripening. Do not put them in the fridge.

You can freeze whole ripe tomatoes. Place them on a flat sheet and sharp freeze, and then put them into storage Baggies in your freezer. Be sure to put a date on the Baggie. When thawing, drop the frozen tomato into hot tap water. The skin will peel off easily. Then set the tomato into a bowl to finish thawing. These can be cooked and used in several food dishes that call for tomatoes.

Partially ripe tomatoes should be allowed to ripen by setting them on a paper towel surface. Do not put them in direct sunlight.

The ripe tomatoes that have flaws (cracks, slight bug damage) can be cut, cooked, strained and turned into juice that can be frozen for use in winter soups and chili dishes.

Green tomatoes with slight damage can be cut and canned, fried or used for salsa mixes. You cannot store these unless you are cutting and freezing the undamaged part of the green tomato.

• Three Heirloom Tomato varieties in one packet.
• Pink seeds are the Italian Costoluto Tomato
• The brown seeds are Black Krim
• The green seeds are Persimmon tomatoes
• So you have no need to chose, you get them all.

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There are so many fabulous heirlooms available and this makes it easier to try a few different ones. Remember to stake the plants when you transplant them. And to avoid tomato cracking don’t let the soil dry out…. More >>

Heirloom Tomato Summer Feast Seeds 75 Seeds

My grandparents had the greenest thumbs in California. I can still picture their lush garden filled with rose bushes, various trees of avocado, persimmon, plum and citrus. The one thing they didn’t grow were vegetables. There was one exception: the tomato. Being a young child, I didn’t care for veggies of any kind. My older sister had a deep hatred of tomatoes and because she hated them, so did I. I refused to eat the big red fruit in any form unless it was a sauce surrounding a great meatball.

In the late summer, my grandparents gave me a task of pulling weeds that surrounded the hot house tomatoes. My grandfather picked one from the vine and bit into it as if it were an apple. I was horrified that he would boldly eat the flesh of what I thought was a vegetable. He sat down next to me and said, “Just try it. A homegrown tomato is nothing like a store bought one. You’ll never know unless you try. Just try it once for me and I won’t tell anyone. I promise.” He picked a cherry tomato and handed it to me, “This is a good size for your first one.” He smiled knowingly and placed the little red devil into my hand. With great trepidation I popped the whole thing in my mouth. I tried to get it over with as quickly as possible. I didn’t want him to see my face, I had been defeated. Looking up at him, I simply asked if I may please have another. He smiled and said, “You can have as many as you like.”

I now have a small garden of my own and grow tomatoes with great pride. I take the same care as my grandparent’s did. At the end of the season, I pickle the green tomatoes before they turn and remember my grandmother canning everything that grew in their garden. I didn’t realize as a four year old, how that day would give me a love of growing things. My sister still doesn’t eat tomatoes and all I can say is she doesn’t know what she’s missing.