Waste Not, Want Not
Tomatoes are the finest food ever. In the spring we always plant tomatoes. Last year, Gerald (my husband) had seen something on Facebook about growing tomatoes from slices.
I had bought some lovely big beefsteak tomatoes. We love tomato sandwiches on homemade bread with mayo and a bit of salt and ground peppers. These were huge tomatoes. We had our sandwiches and a couple of slices were left over. Into the fridge they went.
We live on Prince Edward Island where composting is taken very seriously. A week (or more) later, he found the plate with the by now mushy tomato slices. He was heading to the compost bin with them and as he passed his fish pan where he stores his soil for his bait worms, he thought about the post on growing tomatoes and slide the slices into the soil and sprinkled some of the soil over them
Fast forward a few weeks and he went to put some worms in the soil and saw all the little tomato seedling. He transplanted all 17 of them into the tomato garden. They grew and grew.
I am looking for some photos of them. Surely I took pictures.
Here's a video on how old the tomatoes can be and how easy it is to plant them.
Well, who knew!? I bet putting the slices in the fridge helped them start breaking down so they could grow and grow. So cool!!
I can't wait to try this! Our backyard doesn't get much sun, so we don't garden. But I'm going to find a sunny spot for this.
It was such a thrill to get 17 big beefsteak tomato plants from slices that we were going to throw into the compost bin.