Tomatopalooza....numbah TEN!
Saturday July 28.
Working out the details - location will be the wonderful home/farm location in Efland, NC - Jimmy and Fred hosted two Tomatopaloozas some years ago (including the ones attended by Rena/Suze/Feldon/Mischka and other Tvillians the first time there, and Patrina and other Tvillians the following year). Stay tuned for more details as they develop! |
Wonderful! Reaaaaaly want to make it this year - w/J.Michael's if you want!
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Woo Hoo! I'll be there!!
Greg |
Darn it! That's the first day of my vacation. :(
My family and I are headed in the opposite direction from Efland that day. Oh well, maybe next year. Hey Craig! If I have some dwarf tomatoes ready at that time, would you possibly want me to get them to you before the event? Obviously, I don't expect a firm answer at this time, and I don't know how my schedule will be that week. But if you want to try them, or take them for others to try, I could tentatively plan on doing that. I'm hoping to have Waratah, Tasmanian Red, and Zig Zag Wattle. |
Yay, been waiting to hear when this would be!
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Yeah! I've got it on the calendar! Hoping to have lots of dwarfs and Chocolate Truffles to taste.
Praying the weather will be a bit cooler than last year. |
Web page updated now with event details and registration instructions.
Look forward to seeing y'all there... :) Gotta fix that typo subject line... Lee |
P.S. Stormy, J. Michael's sounds great... I was bummed you gave my
cheesesteak to Craig last time! ;) Lee |
On the calendar! Looking forward to contributing more than just bread this year.
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Finally some news - or will be! We are having a planning meeting on Sunday evening at the hosts' house/farm - with a long agenda.....following that, we will be able to be clear on exactly how Tomatopalooza will go on this year. It will be a nice, relaxed atmosphere - we've had two great events at this location in the past - and since it is number 10, we may be adding a few aspects in, as well as relaxing some of the perhaps perceived to be more structured aspects of the last few years.....(no worries about limiting numbers, parking issues, etc) - I am pondering adding more food - Salsa contest, maybe? - anyway - stay tuned!
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Craig if we still lived in my DH home (KY) we would make a weekend trip to this.
hope your's and other contributors' tomatoes are perfect for the tasting. |
My daughter has a new Tomatopalooza website in development - well, it's launched, actually - but we are making changes to it often!
[url]http://tomatopalooza.weebly.com/index.html[/url] |
[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=4]Hey NC’s ‘My daughter’ - Great site.[/SIZE][/FONT]
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Just a bit more than one week from Tomatopalooza X! For those who plan on attending...please do go to the website - link here again - [url]http://tomatopalooza.weebly.com/[/url] - and register (simple process - just if you are coming/numbers, if you are bringing tomatoes, and if you want to enter the Salsa competition).
I am hoping my tomato supply holds out - if it were this weekend, I could probably bring over 100 varieties! By next weekend...who knows! |
This is somewhat tentative - some of these may not make it to Saturday in edible condition (watching for leakers and fruit flies!) - but if all goes well, I will be bringing the majority of the list below for tasting:
Indeterminates: Blush Green Zebra Cherry Sungold Sungold Select II Maglia Rose Mexico Midget Casey's Pure yellow cross red cherry Lucky Cross Aunt Ruby's German Green Nelson's Golden Giant Maiden's Gold Giant Syrian Burgundy Traveler Farmers Market Bicolor Cherokee Chocolate Selwin Yellow Cherokee Green Dana's Dusky Rose Kellogg's Breakfast JD Special C-Tex Abraham Lincoln Anna Russian Hege's German Pink German Johnson Potato leaf Piennolo Dester Amish Bridge Mikes Nepal Cherokee Purple Lillian's Yellow Heirloom Hillbilly red cross Caitin's Lucky Stripe Cour du Bui Arkansas Traveler Teddy Smooth Sorrento Reinhard Chocolate Heart Speckled Roman Casey's Pure Yellow cross large yellow striped Green Giant cross large pink Trader Joe Yellow Cherry Green Doctor Green Grape Cherokee Chocolate cross small red Torre Canne Yellow Bell Green Giant Amana Orange Taps regular leaf Druzba Polish Strawberry Margarita Big Willy German Johnson regular leaf Dwarf Tomatoes Dainty F1 Dwarf Caitydid Dwarf Russian Swirl 3467 Striped Tidy Dwarf Blazing Beauty 3434 Dwarf Blazing Beauty 3435 Green Beauty 3366 Uluru Ochre 3481 Grizzly red Boronia 3463 Loxton Lad 3432 TastyWine 11-154 Summertime Gold 2512 Uluru Ochre 3460 Dwarf Sweet Scarlet 3412 Dwarf Arctic Rose Dwarf Leesha Summertime Gold 08-145 Dopey F2 selection 1 Dopey F2 selection 2 Dopey F2 selection 3 Dopey F2 selection 4 Ivalde F2 selection 2 Ivalde F2 selection 4 Dwarf Rosella Giant purple 3443 Summetime Gold 11-181 Wherokowhai 3505 Harmony F1 Uluru Ochre 11-147 Bendigo Blush Rosella Crimson 3445 Rosella Crimson 3444 Loxton Lad Loxton Lass Dwarf Sweet Scarlet 3457 Wherokowhai 3437 Dwarf Blazing Beauty 3410 Wherokowhai 3437 TastyWine 3411 Uluru Ochre 3460 Dwarf Jade Beauty Dwarf Beryl Beauty Dwarf Golden Heart Beauty King yellow striped Dwarf Kelly Green Boronia 11-160 Dwarf Sweet Sue Fred's Tie Dye Dwarf Lemon Ice 3513 Dwarf Lemon Ice 3156 Dwarf Pink Passion 3180 Beauty Yellow green striped Pesty striped Summer Sunrise Blazing Beauty 11-40 Cheerful F1 Yukon Quest Barossa Moon 3431 Sarandipity 3466 Summertime Gold 2512 |
You can add Shannon's and Golden Cherokee!! :)
Just went to the site and signed up. Greg |
I will have Flat Head Monster.
Jim |
Here's my list of what I'll have with me.... Interestingly enough, this
will be the first year (in ten years!) that Craig and I have not had any variety overlap.... Amazing.... Big Beef Brawny F3 Cuostralee Don's Double Delight Ferris Wheel Fuzzy Cherokee Improved Colossal Yellow Joe Thieneman's Australian Heart Kentucky Yellow Heirloom Lemon Gazzi Mortgage Lifter Pale Leaf Orange Heirloom Dwarf Mahogony F3 Dwarf Rosella Purple Spear's Tennessee Green Stokes County Tennessee Heirloom Sean's Yellow Dwarf F7 Carbon Yellow Bosnian Not Kristina Bulgarian Celebrity German Queen Brandywine |
Oh this is going to be great! Lee, I had a 2 lb Brandywine picked a few days ago, but it had a little prelude to a lead bad spot near the blossom end - would have been really nasty by tomorrow - so it contributed to the best Tomato Bisque I've ever made!
I think we will be fine with tomatoes for tomorrow.....we always end up just fine! (I don't dare look at the tomatoes I am bringing - I am sure are a bit past their prime....but as we always say, good for seed saving!). I am getting there with Sue and Caitlin around noon. |
Wish I was there! Maybe next year!
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Gonna bring some Anna Russian too! :)
Greg |
Here's hoping all of you have a grand old time!
I'm majorly jealous, but since we're headed in the opposite direction, (beach) I just can't do it this year. Wishing you no spitters!:twisted: |
It was a great day....very tired....much more later. So many people made today a success. Well done as always, Lee...and all!
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Glad to see you posting that you survived...LOL Lee you the man as well. If we lived even have way there we would have come. The thought of seeing that many different kinds of tomatoes in one place is mind blowing.
Now you two go get some well deserved rest. LOL |
What a tasting!! Sooooo many tomatoes it was hard to choose! You really have to go back twice to double check. As I went back to a couple the flavor seemed to change a little! lol
A couple stand outs were German Queen and Dester Amish. Need to grow them for sure! The Dwarves were UNREAL! Better every year! The taste, color, texture, size and shape were overwhelming! Bravo to Craig and Lee for their work! A couple that stood out were.. Laxton Lad Kelly Green Rosella Crimson Brawny F3 Sweet Sue Dwarf Mohogany and Jade Beauty Brought my 8 year old Shannon along this time too. It was hard to keep up with her! She liked it and wants to go next year! She was so proud of the tomatoes she brought and listening to the reviews. Makes me happy she's into gardening like that at such an early age! sniff! Her favorite was.......you know! ;) Looking foward to some pics! Greg |
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Proud girl and her Tomato! :)
Greg |
Here's the photos from this year's event.
Thoughts about the event will be forthcoming. Lee [URL]http://www.tomatopalooza.org/tomatopalooza10/ATS00000.htm[/URL] |
Lee
thanks so much for the link for event pictures. By the time I got to the last pictures I was ready to lick the computer screen...... OH MY GOODNESS those were some really incredible looking tomatoes. To those that placed, name tagged, cut up tomatoe, WELL DONE. That is just incredible display for folks to come a see ALL of those incredible varieties. Ok, I can see this event as a bucket list addition....LOL Thanks for all the hard work and countless hours you folks have put into this. Greg I love your budding garden partner there, she is such a beauty. |
I would love to post some pics - but neither Sue or I got to pick up a camera once! My first thoughts of the day....showed up at noon, had 12 flats of tomatoes...took Sue, Sara, Caitlin, two of Sara's friends and me an hour to get them out and tagged (during which time I was completely drenched with sweat) - did the intro comments, off to the dwarf table, cut there, had a zillion tomato conversations, people kept pushing bottles of water at me....then at one point, a tomato/bacon sandwich (which was so, so appreciated) - back to talking - headed to the clogging area at 4:30 and sat my butt down in a chair for the first time since I got out of my truck at noon!
Of all of the Tomatopalooza events, this one was the most of a total blur for me - no pics, got to taste hardly anything.....wow, just wow! We had lots of people there, which is great - and they didn't trickle in - they were there at the start and they didn't trickle out - they stayed until the end! I hope the organizers collected info on who most of the people were and how they found out about it - much lower percentage of my seedling customers, many many new faces. Who were all those people? Slept the clock around - collapsed at 11 PM, got up at 9 this morning, and my brain is so totally fried! Jim, Greg, Chris, Tim - great to see you/have great conversations. Lee - thanks as always. The success of the event totally fell upon the hosts (Jimmy and Fred for a superb location), Lori and Brian and their cast of many helpers - my three girls (Sweet Sue, Sarandipity and Caitydid), Sara's many friends. Gardens and Guns magazine was there - an article will be forthcoming. Sara's friend, a photographer, also there and took lots of pics - I am sure I am forgetting people and details. Oh - and mother nature - never have my own tomato contributions made up such a large percentage of stuff to taste - which makes me nervous about future events - there is a risk there...always is, but something we need to ponder for the future. Whoosh! Tomatopalooza X has come and gone.....that was FAST! |
Maybe its the equipment I am on but upoun clicking on images could not see the variety tags.
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