Can You Plant a Tomato Directly In The Ground
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Can you just plant a whole tomato in the ground? And if you do...what will happen?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to the epic gardening |
| 0:16.9 | podcast I hope you're having a good time despite some of the craziness that's |
| 0:22.0 | going on right now at least if you're listening to this |
| 0:24.0 | podcast the day it comes out, we are in the middle of the quarantine here in San Diego, California, |
| 0:29.6 | and probably many other parts of the world where you're all listening to it. |
| 0:33.0 | So it's a good time to be in the garden and I figured let's talk about a funny cute way to grow tomatoes |
| 0:38.8 | this year. |
| 0:39.8 | A lot of people have sent me a video of a tomato that's sprouting what looks like to be a bunch of aliens out of it and it's in fact just |
| 0:47.3 | more tomatoes coming out of that tomato right so can you just plant a tomato as a tomato? |
| 0:52.8 | Can you plant a tomato and get tomatoes from it? |
| 0:55.0 | Answer, yes you can. |
| 0:57.0 | Question, is that the best way to grow tomatoes? |
| 1:00.0 | Answer, probably not. |
| 1:02.0 | Question, is it the most fun way to grow tomatoes? |
| 1:03.6 | Answer it might be. So it can be a really fun way to do it and let's talk about why it happens |
| 1:09.5 | this way. So let's think about tomatoes. |
| 1:12.0 | Tomatoes have seeds within them, obviously. |
| 1:14.0 | Those seeds have a bit of a gelatinous or musilaginous style |
| 1:18.0 | coding around them that prevents them from germinating within the tomato. |
| 1:24.0 | Why is this? |
| 1:25.0 | Because the tomato is a very juicy, hydrated tissue, right? |
| 1:30.0 | All the tissue inside of the tomato is wet and so if that was the case then |
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