How to save tomato seed

...ble, Seed to Seed, says that there are only three types of open pollinated tomatoes that you can’t save seed from (without putting them in isolation): Currant tomatoes (L. pimpinellifolium) The potato leaved varieties of L. lycopersicum Any fruit born from double blossoms on Beefsteak-type tomatoes. Double blossoms are prone to cross-pollination. You can save seeds from fruit that came from a single blossom Odd, but simple! You can basically save...

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Plum Lemon Tomato Power’s Heirloom Tomato

...manage to track 1,840 confirmed cases of food-borne illnesses in domestic tomatoes. Again, urban homesteading revolutionaries, GROW YOUR OWN! We found that label and it’s a tomato called “Power’s Heirloom”. Here’s how the Seed Saver’s exchange catalog copy describes it, “First offered in the 1990 SSE Yearbook by Bruce McAllister from Freedom, Indiana. His seed originated in Scott County in southwest Virginia over 100 years ago. Heavy yields of 3-...

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