It's easy as pie.

Run your tap water till it is as hot as you can get it
Put your seeds into any type of fabric sack, I use a knee high stocking.
Dunk the seeds into the hot water and count to ten
Repeat four or five times
Spread seeds out onto a sheet of paper, I use wax paper
Allow to air dry

That's all there is to it. This will not kill anything and everything but
it helps out bunches!
I cure all my seeds at time or harvest by squishing the tomatoes into a
bucket and allow them to stand for a week or two in the outside air (put a
screen meshing over the top so critters don't get into the stinky mess)
At the end of a week or two (depends on the ambient temperature) I drain
this whole mess into a sifter. Rinse and rinse, then place back into the
bucket and fill it with water. After an half hour or so the gunk will have
sunk to the bottom. Sift the seeds off of the top.
Rinse the bucket again and dump the seeds back into it and soak it
overnight.
The seeds which float to the top I throw away as more times than not, these
are the bad ones!
Collect the seeds on the bottom and air dry. Package for storage.

In the spring when you are germinating---dunk them as described above.
These two processes together have allowed me to have fewer problems than any
other method or chemical for over a decade now.

Timber
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"Jim Carter" wrote in message
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On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 15:45:52 GMT, "Timber"
wrote in
rec.gardens.edible:

This is one reason I never purchase seedlings any longer and
I dunk all my seeds prior to even thinking about germinating them.

I have not heard of "dunking" seeds. How is it done?
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