I'm having real good luck the last couple years slicing storebought Roma tomatoes and just planting slices direct in soil (both in pots and in-ground). I average 3-7 seedlings off a couple slices in no time! Then I do the usual, remove lowest leaves, hill 'em around the main trunk 1/2 way up or more so they'll grow more roots and be sturdier plants. Got 4 such plants growing here at my city place right now in 5 gal. pots. They're 2-3'' tall setting fruit (or about to) since planting those slices late March. Just hilled them up for the last time yesterday, in fact.
One indeterminate Roma planted last season at the cabin property, with only Mother Nature's water (which is damn little in Central TX growing season) made it all the way though to first frost last year. It and it's stake had fallen over to ground, leaves dying off, but the thing still had a few ripe tomatoes on it in November! The soil there is poor, sandy loam, so that encourages me it will still produce food when SHTF.
Once we bug out (sometime in next couple weeks) and this current looming event becomes protracted, (all stock-piled seeds are exhausted), I imagine growing tomatoes off tomato slices I grew myself will be my only option. Harvesting seeds off what you grow will be an absolute NECESSITY.
One indeterminate Roma planted last season at the cabin property, with only Mother Nature's water (which is damn little in Central TX growing season) made it all the way though to first frost last year. It and it's stake had fallen over to ground, leaves dying off, but the thing still had a few ripe tomatoes on it in November! The soil there is poor, sandy loam, so that encourages me it will still produce food when SHTF.
Once we bug out (sometime in next couple weeks) and this current looming event becomes protracted, (all stock-piled seeds are exhausted), I imagine growing tomatoes off tomato slices I grew myself will be my only option. Harvesting seeds off what you grow will be an absolute NECESSITY.
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