[permaculture-oceania] ADVICE REQUEST: mystery tomato sprouting

[P Ferguson]

> Russ wrote: "Recently my colleague purchased 'vine ripened' tomatoes from 
> ALDI. Prior to
> eating, she placed the tomatoes on the kitchen window sill to ripen for a
> few days (for taste preferences, she has ripened tomatoes this way for
> decades).  "When this most recent batch of tomatoes were cut, she noticed 
> the seeds
> inside were sprouting, up to one centrimetre & were quite green.
> "As she has never witnessed this before she was very concerned as to the
> provenance of the seeds.

Other than 'vine ripened' was there any other description?   Truss tomatoes, 
loose or in their boxes? or a plastic packet with the growers' name on a 
label?  Grown in Australia?

Most truss tomatoes are hydroponically grown from hybrid seed.

Why not ask Aldi?  Their HO is in western Sydney and there might be a 
contact through their website..

I had strawberry plants in my own garden whose external seeds actually 
sprouted two little leaves each which mystified me, but only a few were 
affected..

P Ferguson
Illawarra.