Heading to the compost to repeat all over again …

Brandywine, ready to ferment!

Baby jar now filled to the top with seeds, pulp, and water … almost there …

They’re all little so it’s easy for them to get away from you .. don’t let ’em!!

Best done late at night looking gruesome. I’m using the little spoon to scoop up the few little seeds not yet caught and captured…

For a quickie on saving non-hybridized tomato seeds, check out plantertomato Last Call: How to Save Tomato Seeds (podcast of 10/03/10.

Here is the start of my adventure harvesting seeds from the heirloom tomatoes I started from seedlings purchased in Saratoga Springs in May.

I love these stamps btw. Especially the compost one. I wonder if they do anything but advertise being green? Like maybe they could be made of compost, or specially decomposing material (but maybe they couldn’t be forever stamps)? Maybe there’s some incentive for the gov’t to do it! Then again, maybe forever is revokable if the post office gets sold to UPS, Fedex or GE. Or if it just lays off enough workers that the new motto is snow? Rain? Heat? Fuhgeddaboudit.