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Post by heavyhitterokra on May 14, 2021 18:14:03 GMT -6
We used to grow 200 to 300 caged tomato plants for the Farmer's Market, 9 local restaurants, 2 grocery stores, and a local health food store, plus Tahlequah City Hospital, but the kids are all grown up and moved off now, and I'm getting too old to keep up with all that. I've geared down quite a bit over the years. In 2019, I only grew 122 plants. I only grew about a hundred last year.
Covid-19 was pretty rough on our market sales in 2020, so we ended up canning a lot of things and giving away lots and lots of stuff. I've been giving away tomato cages like crazy.
This year's garden is geared more toward our kitchen and just trying to meet the new okra seed demand. I'll be busy planting okra seeds for days and weeks to come. Today, I just pulled more weeds out of the berry patch. The forecast looks like tomorrow will be the last day we can work outside for several days, so I'm trying to make the most of my time while I still can.
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Post by hmoosek on Jun 19, 2022 21:43:11 GMT -6
I have a habit of growing cherry tomatoes. I rather enjoy growing something that someone sends me. I used to swap seeds on garden web and there was a lady from Florida that sent me all kinds of tomatoes. Every year when I get out my seeds and come across a package with her neat hand written labels, I smile. This was was labeled Fuzzy Peach and I’ve grown it several times over the years. I used to take samples to work and the ladies always enjoyed getting home grown veggy’s. This one was a favorite of one of the ladies.
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Post by macmex on Jun 20, 2022 5:03:10 GMT -6
Wow! This thread had gotten buried! Great photo of that fuzzy peach tomato, Moose!
I think also, that this a record time for me to have missed a question. What was it, three years? Ron, the tendency to have those protrusions in tomato fruit is probably genetic, meaning that the same variety is likely to do it again, but I doubt that you could select for a strain that makes "Jimmy Durante" faces.
I also got a kick out of the 2019 comment from the Farmers' Market and only wanting garden grown tomatoes. I suppose the insinuation is that home gardeners only produce ugly fruit.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jun 20, 2022 12:33:46 GMT -6
I also got a kick out of the 2019 comment from the Farmers' Market and only wanting garden grown tomatoes. I suppose the insinuation is that home gardeners only produce ugly fruit. You gotta love a well-intended snide remark, no matter how far off the mark. That post was worth looking up again, just for laughs!
(It was the blue one about 7 or 8 comments back).
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Post by hmoosek on Jun 20, 2022 16:19:57 GMT -6
heavyhitterokra You should have told her you preferred to grow in dirt too because getting those tomatoes out of the test tubes was hard work. Hahahaha!
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