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Planting Tomato Slices

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Last month I started an experiment. I studied-up, and found out that you can actually grow tomato plants by planting tomato slices. So I went and bought the best organic, heirloom tomatoes I could find and planted them after making a delicious bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. It's important to get heirloom tomatoes because many of the newer varieties of tomato are hybridized and their seeds won't sprout plants that yield the same fruit as the original tomato.  I planted them in pots to start with, added just enough soil to cover them, and then watered them. That's it!   Keep watering a little every day until the seedlings start poking through the soil. This might take about a month. Let them grow a couple of inches, and then thin them out by taking the strongest seedlings and transplanting them. Hopefully, fingers crossed, you'll end up with lots and lots of tomatoes!! There are videos on YouTube to study if you are interested to see how it works.  Planting Tomato Sl...