‘No’ was the answer I was given by others when I first started gardening.
‘Yes’ is the answer I tell you now. I have tried it and I have proven them wrong!
I fell in love with Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference piccolo tomatoes . They are beautiful on the vine, with vibrant red skin and dark green vine. They are tiny but burst with flavour. I struggled to source the seeds but did not want to buy little plants. Against everyone’s advice, I decided to extract seeds from the supermarket tomatoes directly.
I had never extracted any seeds before. Common sense told me that I should choose a pack of good and healthy looking tomatoes so that I could take their good genes. So I did.
I used a small spoon to remove the seeds from the best looking fruit from the pack. There was some sac around each seed. I was not sure whether I should remove it as it may carry special nutrients for the seed. I decided to carry out a control experiment to find out the answer. I kept one batch with the sac and washed it off in another batch. They were then germinated in similar conditions, ie. in a self-watering propagator.
Answer? It did not matter whether the sac was there or not!
Not sure whether I would get anything from the seeds of supermarket tomatoes, I germinated some tomatoes seeds of other species which I ordered online. Afterall, it would be a bit depressing to have no crop in my first year!
How did it go?
To my surprise, the piccolo tomatoes were the best crop! It tasted even better than the supermarket ones as mine was fresher and ripened on the vine (not by gas!). I particularly loved the lemony aroma when I picked them from the vine.
My first Piccolo tomato harvest 
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You got lucky on your tomato selection. The reason the seeds grew and produced is because the Piccolo tomato is an heirloom tomato and not a hybrid. If you would have chosen a hybrid like the Campari you probably would not have been happy with the results.
Interesting! Good job I let my taste buds choose the tomato!
I am doing just like you the plants look really well. Do I need to side shoot them or are they grown as a bush type?
Fantastic! Piccolo are not bush type. It is best to give them extra support by tying the main stem against bamboo cane etc. If you are growing them in planters (rather than pots), you will soon find that they grow fast, especially after rain! It would be good to give the branches some support too as the fruits start to develop- they are heavy!
Thanks so much for your response I cannot wait to taste them
Planted my seeds i dryed out last summer summer. They look strong and healthy. Just wounder if it was unlawful to do so. Cant wait to see and taste the result. Just wish the weather would change. Did you grow yours outside
The weather has been difficult! I planted them inside first then out when they became stronger.
honestly there’s no need to be so specific. I loved the Piccolo tomatoes when I bought them from Aldi. I squashed one of the tomatoes into a pot of compost and covered it with a fine layer of compost. Within a week I had lots and lots of plants on my windowsill and they are now growing strongly outside. I’m looking forward to picking them later in the year if we EVER get any sunshine!!!
I have done the same with the tomberry that you can buy in sainsburys but you can’t buy seeds for. I now have 7 tomberry plants with loads of flowers and in he last week a few green tomberry s. Yum.
I saw an advert on Amazon for Picolo tomato seeds (20)
Here is the link for the seeds Not a bad price considering the plants are £1.75 each on Amazon! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netponics-Piccolo-Cherry-Aromatic-flavourful/dp/B007ASZ7WQ
There is no need to buy piccolo seeds they are so simple to grow from seed from the fruit its self all I did was to cut open the piccolo tomatoes dryied them on a peace of paper kitchen towel then lifted them from the towel(witch I must admit was a bit tricky as they dried to the paper)then planted them in growbag compost and pricked them out to separate pots and are now doing
fine. I not planted them up yet as i’me not really sure what is best for them. Pot growbag or directly into the ground. (Please forgive my spelling or English grammar).
Growbags seem to be the best.
I was making a sandwich a few weeks ago and decided to sow a few seeds from the tomatos – I just put them into compost without rinsing/drying them.
I was amazed when lots of them germinated within days, and they are now growing strongly. I can’t wait to taste them later this year.
Great to read this info, I have just been eating piccolo toms for tea, really delish! i’l empty a couple of tom’s nw and give it a whirl, thank u
are you aloud to sell the plants at your own home that you have grown from those seeds your’ve extracted from the tomatoes you brought from the supermarket?
you can save seeds off any plant you get seeds off and sell them with no come back from anyone as long as you are not a business