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Old 23-05-2016, 05:19 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default OT(ish) - shop bought tomatoes and germinating seeds

Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
It's not easy growing vine tomatoes from "recovered" seeds. Even in a
heated greenhouse I have had no success while the seeds I've bought
have grown outside in warm summers.


I had few tesco vine tomatoes which hung around for at least a week or
so earlier this year and started to germinate. Out of curiousity,
I planted about 8 of the germinating seeds from them - plants now vary
from 1cm high to a good 40cm after a month or two. It remains to be
seen whether they produce any tomatoes, but I was expect much less
from them.

#Paul