If you want delicious tomatoes grown at home, fish out some manky ones from the back of your fridge and grab a plastic tub, then follow the steps in this viral TikTok hack
Have you ever wanted to grow your tomatoes from scratch? It may seem hard, but you can actually easily grow them from home.
All you need is a soon-to-throw-away tomato, an old plastic fruit tub, and some soil. Next, you need to follow this crafty hack from Simon Akeroyd – @simonakeroydgardener – who shared the method with his his 690,000 followers. In this viral video, Simon says it’s “so easy” to grow your own tomato plants from a supermarket tomato. He used a large salad tomato and cut it into thick slices – about five slices per tomato – and noted how many seeds were inside.
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Afterwards, he suggested recycling a plastic supermarket container with holes to use as your pot. After adding some peat-free compost to the pot, he put two slices of tomato onto the soil, before covering it with more compost. Then, you need to place the pot “somewhere warm and sunny” – he chose a windowsill. Simon said: “Soon, you will have loads of tomato plants.”
Eventually, the pot was full of tomato seedlings, which will eventually need “thinning out” to let each plant grow bigger. However, the gardening supremo said to do this “once the true leaves have formed.” True leaves are the second set of leaves that grow on a seedling, and they resemble the mature plant’s leaf shape on a smaller scale.
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When you need to pot on the seedlings, the TikToker said to “hold the leaf, not the stem” to avoid it snapping, and then transfer into individual pots. For anyone doubtful of this gardening hack, Simon shared a video of tomato plants and fruit that he grew last year, with the same method – with the end result lots of large orange and red tomatoes!
Social media users were taken aback by the nifty hack. One commented underneath the video: “I had some cherry tomatoes that went bad and I threw them in the yard for the critters. Next season I had the best cherry tomatoes.” Another replied to her comment: “Funny! I started just tossing em to a back area after two bushes had grown, now I get tomatoes for zero effort.”
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A third user added: “I just threw a whole carton of tomatoes I had that started to get mushy in a pot and put dirt over them and now I have like 40 tomato plants lol.” Meanwhile, a genius hack will keep pests away from your flowers and vegetables for the same price as a large coffee. As temperatures heat up this summer, TikTok has exploded with gardening hacks to help keep your outside space looking lush and beautiful.
One brilliant hack doing the rounds involves using a mesh bag as a barrier against pests trying to get at your beloved homegrown vegetables. The mesh bags are similar to the drawstring sheer bags often gifted out for weddings and party favours and you may even have some lying around at home.
This is an especially useful hack for people growing fruit and vegetables this summer. To take advantage of this trend, start by placing the bags over your fruit and vegetable plants – anything from strawberries to peppers – as they grow. The holes in the bags are too small for the larger pests, like slugs and snails, to get through. There are other uses for the bags – which are super cheap at just 50 for £3.99. They can be used to collect seeds from spent flowers by enclosing the dying flower in the bag. This is a sure-fire way of not wasting any of the seeds by letting them drop to the ground.
NOTE – This article was originally published in mirror and can be viewed here
