Why We Plant Tomato Seeds on Valentine’s Day

We have a bit of a strange Valentine’s Day tradition.

Every year we splurge on really nice steaks from our local butcher and make a fancy dinner for our family. Steak, garlic roasted potatoes, sauteed mushrooms, green beans and some kind of fancy dessert. We eat by candle-light and make a fun night out of it. And then we do something most people would consider strange.

We plant tomato seeds.

You see where we live, we have a super short growing season. Now that doesn’t mean that we can’t have an awesome little garden, just that we have to plan well and if we want to use our own seeds, then we have to start early.

So we start planting our tomatoes on Valentine’s day. It’s a little unconventional but it works for us and it makes a unique family tradition. We use our heirloom seeds that we collected the year before and start a whole bunch of tomato plants. We’ll use what we need, and give the rest to our family in the spring.