Nice going, got home to find the rest of the first tray of tomatoes have germinated... making it a 100% hit rate (a single germination in a pot is a "hit", I typically have 2-3 seeds per pot, in many cases they all germinate and a cull is required.)

The second tray went into soil yesterday... so I guess we expect to see them at the end of the week.

The source codes are:

• KY = our own seed
• CS = Chiltern Seeds
• NR = NR Tomatoes
• F = Fatalii
• VN = Victoriana Nursery
• NN = Nicky's Nursery

No tomatoes from Real Seeds this year oddly. I would normally have got Amish Paste from them but I forgot and luckily Nicky's also stocks it.

That is our last original Jersey Giant seed from Fatalii... precious. Though our own seem to be true to variety I will b hoping to harvest seed from the original. (This was a freebie with a chilli order, but is now one of my top-3 favourite tomatoes.)

Hoping to be better about own own seed for most of this lot for next year.

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Last thing before bed (it takes me at least an hour of piss farting around getting distracted between deciding to go to bed and it actually happening...)

Anyway, last thing is second/final tomato seeds into chamomile to be sown on Sunday.

After years of trying to find one (many years failing with differently sourced San Marzano), Amish Paste is looking likely to become our key sauce tomato. It performed excellently in 2025. This year we must do a proper job of cultivating our own seed for it. (As well as other vars.)

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I am hoping this idea improves my seed sowing game a bit.

It crossed my mind the other day as I had seeds spread out on the table to remind me what to sow.

We used to use the same idea to organise beer keg badges and pump clips.

It's just a cheap "shoe organiser" with clear pockets (important!) from Evilzon. I expect it isn't fit for purpose to hold anything but the daintiest slippers, but it is perfect for seed packets!

The idea is that the left column is the most urgent, with the right column being like "in 2 months maybe". It isn't filled out yet. Getting to that this weekend....

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