Help with tomato seeds please...

[gavinjconway]

Hi all - I am looking for a good tomato to plant next year... It has to be a good sweet, juicy, firm and crisp tom to eat straight off the plant with a dash of salt at the plot and if is is a type that cooks well even better.

What I really mean is it must not be an anemic looking tasteless Tesco value pack tom!! I love my tomatoes and would really like a plant or two next year to pick at leisure and eat raw.

I have the following for swapping

Gem squash - little gem - my speciality - I have loads... see info about them here www.GavinConway.net

potato onion - sets.. The potato onion (also known as multiplier onion) is a variety of the 'Aggregatum group' of Allium cepa, similar to the shallot, although producing larger bulbs (nine are still small tho) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_onion

Lettuce - All year round - opened
lettuce - mixed salad leaves
1 packet courgette - black beauty
carrots - birds eye - early nantes2
pointed cabbage - winningstadt - about 300 seeds..
pointed spring cabbage - mixed - wintergreen / flowers of spring / wheelers imperial
gourd - small mix- 10 seeds
gourd - speckled swan - 10 seeds
gourd - snake - 10 seeds
basil - sweet genovese
egg plant
castor oil plant - 20 seeds
giant pumpkin - dills atlantic 6 seeds

a few seed of each below.. see pic below / and google them..
pumpkin - trombetta
pumpkin - succa bottiglia

[gavinjconway]

[pumkinlover]

I can sort out a selection of  some tomato seeds Gavin I like red pear especially, would love a couple of Gem Squash and  a couple of trombetta squash.

[gavinjconway]

I can sort out a selection of  some tomato seeds Gavin I like red pear especially, would love a couple of Gem Squash and  a couple of trombetta squash.

Poifect. Thanks PL - pm your details and I'll do the same..

[aj]

Gavin - do you know the variety of Potato Onion that you have there?

[gavinjconway]

Gavin - do you know the variety of Potato Onion that you have there?

Tasty!!                no sorry.. I'll try to find out tho..

[galina]

Greenhouse or outside tomato?  I have just fermented seeds of a variety you might like, but it is better grown in a greenhouse.

[willsy]

Hi there re: tomato seed.  "Petengade" sent me some tomato( yellow pear) seeds last year and they were lovely sweet toms. I have saved some seed from the grown tomatoes if you want some but not got a lot. Whoever has the red pear! could I try them please? I have loads of seeds to many to list, but nothing exotic or unusual but if you want anything and I have got some please ask...
Thanks Ann

[gavinjconway]

Greenhouse or outside tomato?  I have just fermented seeds of a variety you might like, but it is better grown in a greenhouse.

Hi Galina - I can do greenhouse no probs..

also.... When collecting tom seed do I simply squeeze onto a paper towel and dry?  I dont understand the "fermenting" that you talk about??

[gavinjconway]

Hi there re: tomato seed.  "Petengade" sent me some tomato( yellow pear) seeds last year and they were lovely sweet toms. I have saved some seed from the grown tomatoes if you want some but not got a lot. Whoever has the red pear! could I try them please? I have loads of seeds to many to list, but nothing exotic or unusual but if you want anything and I have got some please ask...
Thanks Ann

Hi Ann - your yellow sound good.. I'll pm you my details..

[gavinjconway]

Gavin - do you know the variety of Potato Onion that you have there?

Hi AJ - the person who I got them from does not know - sorry.. Gavin

[galina]

Greenhouse or outside tomato?  I have just fermented seeds of a variety you might like, but it is better grown in a greenhouse.

Hi Galina - I can do greenhouse no probs..

also.... When collecting tom seed do I simply squeeze onto a paper towel and dry?  I dont understand the "fermenting" that you talk about??

Fine - will put a little packet aside for you, please pm your address.

Yes you can just squidge them onto a piece of paper, label and let dry.  In the UK we don't have the tomato diseases that absolutely  n e e d  to be dealt with by fermenting the seeds.  However, you can't really share glued together seeds stuck on a piece of paper as easily as fermented seeds, which look like the seeds from a seed packet.

http://www.realseeds.co.uk/tomatoes_bush.html

Here is a brief instruction (bottom of the page), and this is what most seedsavers do in the UK too.

HTH

[aj]

Gavin - do you know the variety of Potato Onion that you have there?

Hi AJ - the person who I got them from does not know - sorry.. Gavin

Not to worry - I have a few that I don't know the variety so I'm trying to gather lots of different types but no good if they aren't named as I'll end up with too many unnamed varieties.

I can send you a Heritage mix though - they are just drying out. Give you plenty of toms all in one packet.

[gavinjconway]

Hi Aj - thanks for the offer.. I'll pm you my details.