Fermenting seeds revisited.

[imp]

Originally Posted by Worth1

As far as the type of plate you should not use paper plates.
Paper plates are of poor taste.
You should use the best china you have for good taste and the best tasting tomatoes.

Worth

Well, then when I dry my seeds, I shall use the last made in 1907 china, pattern The Senate, to get the best out of my seeds!

Will that be tony enough? LOL!!!

Link to pattern:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Alfred-Meaki...sAAOSw6EhUQtRe

[MissS]

Nice pattern! Those seeds ought to provide some excellent tasting tomatoes.

[Hoosier]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

I use the method I learned from Carolyn - which is what Worth wrote. I do add a step to the process. I don't use the lid, but I very loosely use screen wire to keep the bugs out. I only saved seeds from a few varieties that are fun growing and tastes really good. I found two varieties that are striped that taste good and are not cherry tomatoes. I had three, but something knocked over the Striped Roman seed jar.

I also use pint jars and put a coffee filter over the jar and then screw the ring down over it to keep the fungus gnats out.

[bower]

Originally Posted by imp

Well, then when I dry my seeds, I shall use the last made in 1907 china, pattern The Senate, to get the best out of my seeds!

Will that be tony enough? LOL!!!

Link to pattern:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Alfred-Meaki...sAAOSw6EhUQtRe

Oh, that is lovely !
Your seeds should be fantastic!

[Worth1]

I prefer the German Meissen onion pattern myself.

Worth

[imp]

It's a lovely pattern, but not one I would chose. In some of the various china makers, I like some of the older flow blue patterns, though not the extremely smeared ones.

Is that the pattern you have, worth?

The other set Rob and I collected was Marigold by Alfred Meakin as well, very Art Deco.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Set-of-5-Alf...4AAOSwSlBYv0Rc

[Worth1]

I dont have any china all I have is some heavy porcelain from Walmart.

Love the Meakin

[imp]

Nothing wrong with that. Before Rob, I had wally world plates and garage sale mix.

Rob did love Alfred Meakin chine, though. And Japanese dragonware with the geisha cups, though all that was newer mostly, last century.

[Worth1]

This is the better homes and gardens white square plates bowls cups and so on I really like them.
Bought them right after I quit my job in Alaska to celebrate.

[AlittleSalt]

I use those little paper party plates to save seeds on. The kind if you put a slice of cake on it - you'd better hold onto it with both hands and carefully set it down.

[imp]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

I use those little paper party plates to save seeds on. The kind if you put a slice of cake on it - you'd better hold onto it with both hands and carefully set it down.

<grin>, Salt, cake you eat fast so you can get another piece!

Or just use one of those nice, lovely, LARGE china plates for that cake, errr, I mean piece of cake!

I save my seeds this way too, have for years; last year though my chocolate cherries weren't sprouting fast enough to suit me so I planted more... Yes I was giving plants away.

Good luck with your special seeds, worth; hope they do just as well for you next year!

[AlittleSalt]

The reason I went to using the smaller plates is because I ran out of room with the larger ones.

One year, I sat a few plates of seeds out in one of our barns. I checked on them a couple days later and found that mice love to eat tomato seeds...

Then I took our onion cage/table that has 1/4" rabbit fencing on it and tried drying tomato seeds in it. The mice couldn't get to the seeds, but the ants did. That's when I started using the smaller plates. I built a shelf inside our home just for drying tomato seeds. Now the shelf is covered in kids games and clothes.

[Gardeneer]

I am fermenting probably my last.
Iuse big coffee filters , like commercial ones. can't remember Where I got them for free.
Anyway, if you ferment real good washed real well and dry them right afterwards, the seeds should be less sticky. There is more than one way to skin a dead cat .

[Barbee]

I use plastic coated paper plates. Write the variety on the plate then stack them on on top of the fridge till winter.