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Re: 'best' (or worst?) gardening tip

Dear Martha,
Interesting ideas. I love to try stuff like this. I swear someday I'll
make good on my idea to plant an entire vegetable garden in the late
fall and see what comes up in the spring. This is how volunteers come up
and they are always my healthiest, most productive plants.

But, what zone are you in, Martha? And how did your other tomato
experiments come out? Were they successful? Is your potting bench in a
greenhouse, outside or in a sheltered area?

Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Sherry Young
New Hampshire Zone 4 (REAL cold right now)

MARTHA E. WELLS wrote:
> 
> 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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