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Saving seed from your favourite tomatoes is a simple process and could save you money on buying seeds next year. If you grow more than one variety it's likely bees will have cross-pollinated them, so you could be growing your own brand new variety

Tomatoes are easy to grow from seed and should germinate within two weeks. Compact cherry varieties can be grown in pots and hanging baskets, while larger, cordon types are more suited to being raised in the ground or in growing bags. Tomato seeds

tick tick tick tick tip: add sugar with the tomato seed so the tomato tastes sweeter I planted tomato seeds on 8 April but 6 weeks on they are only 5 cms high and seem quite weak. Would the soil I planted them in have anything to do with it

Hi! Does anyone have any advice on how to grow Pink Jester tomatoes? In the greenhouse - or outside? Are they bush or vine? Do they need bees to pollinate? My mum tasted Jester tomatoes at Tatton Park Flower show and said they were the best ever

Encourage your children's interest in gardening, by learning to grow peanut plants with Rachel de Thame's video advice.springMore plants to grow in a greenhouseTomatoesCactiOrchidsEarly strawberries

Has anyone had tomato seedling plants which have grown from disgarded tomatoes thrown into the general garden compost bin.  I mixed some garden compost with garden soil before I planted my sweetpea seeds then later found tomato seedlings growing too

' tomato plants are grafted. The idea is that giving the plants different roots to grow from makes them more disease resistant, helps them fruit earlier and for longer, producing larger yields etc. All of these things may be true. Grafting is a useful

can encourage the problem. Compost sold specifically for tomatoes, such as grow bags, contains sufficient calcium for a good crop of fruits. Never apply fertiliser to dry soil, always give plants plenty of water first. tomatoes, peppers

Does anyone know why the leaves on my tomato seedlings are curling up.  They get plenty of water. Am I giving them too much? Have a look here http://www.tomatogrowing.co.uk/html/tomato_growing_tips.html   This is very helpful.  Thank you.  It

Can anyone advise me how many Losetto tomato plants I should put in a 12" hanging basket. Never grown tomatoes in a basket before. Thank you. I would say not more than 3 in a 12" basket. Losetto grows to about 12" wide. Any more and the roots won