Today I'm going to show you how to save your own tomato seeds so that you don't have to go and buy them next year.

Today I'm going to show you how to save your own tomato seeds so that you don't have to go and buy them next year. Friends, this tomato in particular is really, really special. So I was given seeds from an Iowa farmer three years ago, and his grandmother brought these seeds from Germany about 70 years ago. I don't have a name for this tomato, I just call it a mystery German tomato. We are going to save the seeds from this so that I can send them out to you guys this year again. I did that last year and you guys really, really enjoyed it. And I have enjoyed seeing you guys grow them in your garden. So let me show you how to save tomato seeds. This will work for any variety. And you won't have to buy them next year. So this is incredibly easy friends. Now, there is a bit of mold and stuff on the bottom and bug damage on this tomato because I am battling tomato caterpillars really, really bad, which kind of stinks, but that's okay. So you just want to make sure that your tomato is fully ripe. And then we are going to just cut into it. There's a couple of different ways that you can do this. This is how I do it. This is how I find it to be the easiest. So once you have cut into this, you just need to find the seed pockets on the inside of your tomato. And we are going to squeeze that into a mason jar. And you can see all of those beautiful seeds that are in there. Just keep doing that until you empty the tomato entirely. So after you have squeezed out all of the seeds, I just add probably like an inch of water above where all of the seeds are. And we're just going to let this ferment on our counter for two days. Now, there's a couple of different ways that you can do this, friends. Some people just squeeze the tomato out, rinse it off and let it dry. If you ferment this for two days in the water, it allows that slimy coating to peel off of the seeds much, much easier. So that's how I prefer to do it. Um, if you want to do it the other way, you can. It's just a little bit more work. So I guess we'll call this part one. And then here in a couple of days, I'll show you the next step and how to dry them out properly for storage. So go get your tomatoes and start saving some seeds.