welcome to the rest of garden today I want to show you how to collect seeds tomato seeds for your garden for next year and I go through a half fermentation process some people may take a tomato and just drop these seeds onto a paper towel let them dry and use them for next year and that will work however there's two reasons to really ferment your seeds one when you're doing a lot of them this is the easiest way to do it but you ferment the seeds to get rid of this coat you can see around each of these seeds is a gel coating the capsule almost and that inhibits germination this is a natural process if you think about it the tomato is a perfect environment for seeds to germinate it's full of fluid it's nice and warm yet they don't germinate even when they're mature and that's because the seed coat inhibits them fermentation brings up well what I lose my thought yeast into the process it ferments the sugars a turn air creates alcohol and really ends up dissolving and rotting away the seed coating that's what you want to happen so when you clean them you have seeds that are ready for germination the other thing that it does is the fermentation process will also kill off any diseases or funguses that may be on the tomato seeds if you're got something and you're touching the outside of the tomato these have been washed and then you touch the seeds and then you just dry them you may be storing some fungus or something like that it's very very rare don't over worry about it but when you ferment them the alcohol does to get rid of that so all you really do is take a tomato this is one that I've already cut in half and then taken out the seeds I save these and I make sauce with them right after I'm done so you put the seeds right in there now let me just use this so cut it in half sometimes you have to cut the tomato and quarters just to get all the compartments opened up but just drop the seeds in be careful like this compartments not open if you press it will shoot out a stream of seeds and gel at you so just save the flesh of the tomato and again real quick cut it in half and that's all you do is to collect the seeds and you can see three or four cherry tomatoes have already given me all of those seeds these are Baxter's bush cherries this is an orange flame tomato that I'm saving once you have everything cored out of your tomato it's just going to go into jars you can use the little mason jars you can recycle your own jars these have been going for a couple of days you need to let your tomatoes seeds affirm it somewhere between four days and up to seven days I want to do any less than that really and I want to go past seven days and I'll show you in the second video how you clean these and get these ready for storage I'm just going to open this up I don't know if you can hear it there's a little burst that's the fermentation let's see this one's better yeah all that gas coming out is really from the fermentation process and you can see bubbles coming up so these are rotting fermenting nicely every day or so you can see how there's a separation there you just want to shake this up and in four to seven days all these seeds are going to be ready to clean and store and I'll show you how to do that in the next video hope you enjoyed this please check out part two and also check out my other YouTube videos thanks