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'best' (or worst?) gardening tip

The lazy man's seed starting method. I found some of the largest tomatoes I 
grew out one year had very few seeds, and those not very viable. So, I just 
saved one tomato on the vine until it was 'squishy ripe'. I put it under a 
potting table in the bottom of a 1 gal pot and filled the pot with dry 
potting soil. The next year, along about the time I started thinking about 
starting transplants, I pulled my hybernating tomato out and started 
watering the soil. It made quite a number of baby plants. Since then, I've 
tried to do this with several types. (After all, in the 'wild', this is how 
they'd reproduce themselves, isn't it?)
I also hacked open a Halloween pumpkin and several seeds had sprouted. I 
plunked them into a 5 gal pot and have had an interesting vine growing in my 
living room all winter.
I posted the 'milk' idea to my goat list. and I think several are going to 
try it with the pumpkins and other squash varieties. Will let you know.
martha
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