Re: first tomato of the season- yay!!!
I want to thank everyone for their responses..;0) learned quite a
bit..my mom said she will never buy a store bought tomato
again..heehee.. it's too bad we cannot grow these year round.. I made an
awesome marinara sauce and was able to freeze most of it..so I kinda got
a taste of how much better the tomatoes are because this was the best
sauce I ever made..( humble me huh??heehee)
Hope everyone is having a wonderful time in their gardens.. I know I
am.. as a matter of fact.. gardening is the best thing to happen since
sliced bread.. hmmm that cannot be right.. didn't gardening come
first..heehee.. but I think that you get my drift..
Christi
pfarms wrote:
>
> No Christi,
>
> You are doing something different from the commercial growers (please don't
> use the term "farmer" for these mostly very large corporations), you are
> probably letting them ripen on the vibe while they pick theirs at a first
> break stage of color and them have them gassed to turn red during shipping
> and storage.
>
> Remember that there are a lot of varieties of many different vegetables with
> great flavor and taste that will never be seen in the grocery store because
> they don't meet the needs of the large commercial growers-ripen all at once,
> be suitable for a machine harvest and processing, be able to sustain the
> rigors of shipping and storage, and perhaps look and taste somewhat like the
> real thing. Don't forget that the round red things in the grocery stores in
> Jabuary are not hockey pucks!
>
> As a Market Gardener (we sell at the local Farmer's Market), we still pick
> ours when they are ripe. The downside, of course, is that if they don't
> sell, we only have a few options-donate, eat or preserve, or feed the
> chickens (they are in charge of the compost pile). They won't last until
> the next market day. This also means that the day before market day is one
> very long day.
>
> Rich
> Purrfleece Farms
> Mount Vernon AR
> pfarms@alltel.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Christi <christiwilson@home.com>
> To: <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 11:57 PM
> Subject: Re: first tomato of the season- yay!!!
>
> > I planted 6 tomato plants this year.. and I don't even eat tomatoes!!!!
> > but I did give a bunch away.. and everyone said.. "this is definately
> > better than store bought" can anyone tell me why?? do farmers do
> > something different than home growers??
> >
> > (this is my first year gardening so I really don't know a lot.. but if
> > you don't ask.. you don't know..:0)
> >
> > Christi
> >
> > "F. Drew Leyda" wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >I HAVE to tell everyone that I ate my first tomato today.
> > > > OK it was just a cherry tomato but it tasted like ambrosia!!!!
> > >
> ****************************************************************************
> > > **
> > > Nothing tastes as good as home grown !
> > >
> > > drew
> >
> >
