The festive season is back and I was in my wife home town about 300km from Kuala Lumpur. Its on East Coast of the Peninsular where life is simple and easy.
In the backyard of my in law's place there are few bunch of Cherry Tomato plant teaming with tomatoes
Pick a few tomatoes, the red ones thinking of using it for my Aquaponics set.
Plenty more where that came from.
Pick about a dozen for their seeds.
and squeeze them over a newspaper for drying, wax paper is ideal but I don't have any at the time.
Once all done, put it in the sun to dry, but not over dry.
After about an hour under the sun, they are dry and I scrape them off the newspaper. Plenty of seeds. If they are left in the sun longer they may dry out completely and be a bit brittle and easily break during scrapping.
Then fold the newspaper with the seeds inside and dry it again, this time they are "protected" by the newspaper and slowly dry.
Tomatoes looking good, no sign of any bugs. I have to closely watch it this time and use that Organic Repellent.
I reuse those PVC pipe that were use for shade and make support for the tomato plants.
These PVC are cheap, in fact its cheaper than wood and I can reuse it time after time.
One growbed is dedicated to tomatoes, I will do it this way now. Growing same type on one growbed with smaller shrub on the bottom.
Four out of six flowering and will see whether it will develop into fruits. My backyard did not receive full sun so this may pose a problem to these tomatoes.
This high water level siphon outlet that I made last week still works without problem. It whistle upon siphon cut off hence I'm going to nickname it "The Whistler".
This whistling is due to that breather hole for aeration on the end cap and if you hear the whistle it is cutting out the siphon.
