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Old tomato seeds
Grajean
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I have just found an old packet of Red Alert tomato seeds, date on packet is 2015. Is it worth trying to grow these and should I soak the seeds first?
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I have just finished using a packet of Roma, dated 1995. All germinated even though I'd had a few out each year.
In previous years I've been sent tomato seeds from all sorts of varieties by a tomato afficionado in Italy ... some of them were probably 10+ years old - I've never had a problem getting nearly 100% germination
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you everyone I will sow some.
tomato seeds can pass through the human digestive system, be flushed down the toilet and survive the sewage system and still germinate.
You can fiddle around sterilising compost, giving heat, food and light for the little dears, just chuck a rotten tomato on your compost heap, you'll have lovely plants all over your garden next year. I don't put them in my compost for that reason,?
I have planted tomato seeds dated 2015 at themoment am waiting for them to show..
Actually My old Tomato seeds have turned into inch high lug plants.. Am thinking of pricking them out tomorrow to go into bigger pots..