This is great to hear -- tomato seeds are easy to collect and store, and are a good intro to encourage friends to start doing the same. I note you mention prun

This is great to hear -- tomato seeds are easy to collect and store, and are a good intro to encourage friends to start doing the same. I note you mention prune noire -- I don't think we have that here in Australia (though we're quite fortunate in the huge range of tomato varieties we do have, as a lot of immigrants brought their seeds across with them in the early part of last century, before we cracked down on flora importing). If you haven't tried growing them I'd recommend whatever other black ones you can find -- here we have Black Krim, Black Russian, Purple Russian, and a smaller cherry-style variety of one of those. All superb flavour, texture, and eye-appeal.