Take out the mistory and bring back the "Muck"

I was talking about some tomatoes I'd given to a teacher at my sons daycare. They were't doing well and she asked about saving the seed. When I gathered the fruit didn't fully develope I suggested she chuck them and go to the supermarket March next year and get a big red juicy tomato cut it in half and squeeze out the seeds and grow from there.
She look at me sideways as if that's too simple. In fact the seedling I'd given her came just that way. The underlying worry was that she presumed that the seedlings were in some way special.
My friend told me that she'd tried many times unsuccessfully to grow tomatoes. She'd even bought special seed from overseas.The special seeds also didn't grow.
Yes these seeds are hybrides but the aim of backyard food is to make it easy for everyone to grow their own food - once you get going and have got the hang of it then try some heirloom varieties, as they provide more choice and variety than hybrid. There is a non profit organization call the seed savers exchange that was created to preserve heirloom varieties. So once you've got the hang of it you may want to give some other varieties a go which will go to help preseve them for the next generation.

Tomatoes will grow on a slab of cerment with a nutrient flow on it.
I've also listened to the man on the radio bamboozal a little old lady with his knowlege of plant nutrients saying she'd need this and that and then a bit of whatever.
The fact is it's all in the muck most people put in the bins. So gather your muck make some compost and keep it simple.
"From Muck To Meal Bag" Traditional Irish saying.
See older posts about making compost.