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STUPID QUESTION ALERT!
I managed to get tomatoes from morrisons yesterday and they are like i remember them from me grandads allotment. proper taste and not all mushy like the usual shite they churn out.
How do i harvest the seeds :confused: wash them and then plant them? or do they have to be dried or something before i can plant them in pots and will they come up this year 😵‍💫
I'm new to all this sorry but i'm sick of the hold shops have on us and i need to break free of it.
Tomato seeds will often grow where the fruits drop off and rot . However seed companies and some growers tend to try and get rid of the jelly like sac that the seeds are are surrounded by as the sac can prevent the seed from germinating .
So , put the seeds in a jam jar put some warm/ tepid water in and after a few days it should start to ferment . Give them a shake and then put them in a colander , put them under the tap , prod them around then put on paper towels to dry .
 
Give us a shout if you want a red-cross parcel sending chief. :thumbs:

18 euros plus another 8 for delivery for 500gms on the Spanish Amazon site . Anyway I was joking as I’ve got a bad head cold and bored . Intermarche has them in stock and my conversation with the imaginary cashier never took place . But thanks for the kind offer 👍
 
Tomato seeds will often grow where the fruits drop off and rot . However seed companies and some growers tend to try and get rid of the jelly like sac that the seeds are are surrounded by as the sac can prevent the seed from germinating .
So , put the seeds in a jam jar put some warm/ tepid water in and after a few days it should start to ferment . Give them a shake and then put them in a colander , put them under the tap , prod them around then put on paper towels to dry .
:thumbs:cheers mate thats great - basically on going free food 🍅
 
1. There's no tomato issue, its a Remainer lie.
2. There may be a tomato issue but only in the bad supermarkets, not in lidl and aldi.
3. ok Aldi is also bad now.
4. Why would anyone want a tomato anyway.
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Did you get to Brixton market and find your 20 tomatoes for £21? Or have you not learned to actually count to more than ten yet? (tip, use your toes and nose to assist).
 
Did you get to Brixton market and find your 20 tomatoes for £21? Or have you not learned to actually count to more than ten yet? (tip, use your toes and nose to assist).
No I’ll be there on Wednesday now, not today.
You’ve forgotten that it’s you who ran off with the idea that each single tomato is one pound, and me who said don’t be silly.
 
No I’ll be there on Wednesday now, not today.
You’ve forgotten that it’s you who ran off with the idea that each single tomato is one pound, and me who said don’t be silly.
You quoted a box of twenty tomatos cost £21. Have you forgotten already? Why not re read your post and then come back?
 
£20 a case seems to be the going rate

Italian restaurants across Britain are having to ration tomatoes, increase prices and in some cases remove the pomodoro from their menus entirely as costs soar.

The price of tomatoes has increased as much as fourfold in the past year, from £5 a case to £20 a case, according to the Federazione Italian Cuochi UK (FIC UK), a chefs’ association.

The price of canned tomatoes has doubled, it said, from £15 a case to £30. The cost of that insalata staple the iceberg lettuce has also soared, from around £7 a box to £22.


 
for the sake of fuck. I said, it does not mean single tomatoes, things did go downhill from there but if this makes you feel better do carry on.

No you personally are responsible for the contents of that Daily Mail article.
 
this is grim (brixton market stall the one on the end of electric avenue i think not sure) interviewed in Dm of all places.

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so the stuff that does end up in the supermarkets is when producers and importers stick with the contracts they agreed months ago, but current wholesale prices are massively higher so the small shops and market sellers are screwed too, forced to either be much more expensive than the big shops or else not buy in these things at all.
Bimble, this is your quote. " A crate of 20 tomatoes has gone from £6 to £21. "
 
No you personally are responsible for the contents of that Daily Mail article.
You posted a picture to prove your point and made yourself just look like an idiot, refusing to estimate the numbers of the product in the picture you yourself posted.

the pair of you just remind me of the wise saying about arguing with fools.
 
£20 a case seems to be the going rate

Italian restaurants across Britain are having to ration tomatoes, increase prices and in some cases remove the pomodoro from their menus entirely as costs soar.

The price of tomatoes has increased as much as fourfold in the past year, from £5 a case to £20 a case, according to the Federazione Italian Cuochi UK (FIC UK), a chefs’ association.

The price of canned tomatoes has doubled, it said, from £15 a case to £30. The cost of that insalata staple the iceberg lettuce has also soared, from around £7 a box to £22.


If there's 24 cans in a case of canned tomatoes and waitrose are knocking out their own brand chopped toms at £1.90 for a pack of four, as they were this lunchtime, that's a mite less than £12 a case
 
TopCat if you want to hurt my feelings you'll have to think of something better than this, sorry.

You're obviously very angry about something and all that anger for a while now has focussed on me and on a typo about tomatoes in a daily mail article.
It was very obviously a typo. Which is not really very interesting is it.

The point is, you think its impossible for veg to have increased at wholesale price to the extent that the people in there claimed.
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Yeah you dunno. Have a look at what you posted. £2 for a lettuce and two quid for a single bell pepper. Not even fortnums charge those prices.
Since then we've had a whole load of evidence from various places saying exactly the same thing, that wholesale prices of some fruit & veg in the UK has tripled and quadrupled at the moment.
But you don't like that so you are going to go on and on endlessly about a tomato-related typo in a daily mail article and tell me how stupid i am. I mean each to their own but seems a bit sad.
 
TopCat if you want to hurt my feelings you'll have to think of something better than this, sorry.

You're obviously very angry about something and all that anger for a while now has focussed on me and on a typo about tomatoes in a daily mail article.
It was very obviously a typo. Which is not really very interesting is it.

The point is, you think its impossible for veg to have increased at wholesale price to the extent that the people in there claimed.
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Since then we've had a whole load of evidence from various places saying exactly the same thing, that wholesale prices of some fruit & veg in the UK has tripled and quadrupled at the moment.
But you don't like that so you are going to go and on endlessly about a tomato-related typo in a daily mail article and tell me how stupid i am. I mean each to their own but seems a bit sad.
Play the man not the ball eh? My point was simple enough, your quote was all a lot of bollocks, probably garbled by a sub editor. Yet you chose to put it up to help your general point never once actually considering what you were quoting as to credibility. You have just been defensive then aggressive and more than a bit obtuse ever since.
 
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