Saving Tomato Seeds
You can collect most vegetable seeds without much fuss. Beans are literally left on the plant until they dry out, while peppers are as simple as scooping out the seeds and setting them to dry. Tomatoes call for a slightly more complex method.
You can, in theory use the pepper method with tomatoes. However, you may have noticed that tomatoes have a gelatinous layer surrounding each seed. This layer is called a germination inhibitor and is made up of a chemical that prevents the tomato seeds from germinating inside the fruit. Nature is smart! While the scoop and dry method will remove that layer, fermenting the seeds first will also serve to kill diseases your plant may have contracted along the way.
