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surf4grrl · March 14, 2013

I appreciate you trying to drag Tom into this but this isn't about Tom Wagner or single seed descent.

This is about Sweet Beverly, Sweet Sharon and the conflicting stories many of us have gotten and continued to get.

I bring up the "year round growing" because it is the trope that we keep hearing is "we can grow to an F7" is 3-4 years for so very many varieties (what is it this year 3,000 varieties????) - are coming out and its suspect given that the single supposedly "stable variety" found on an abandoned farm now has various incarnations.

I've seen the numbers, and the stats, and honestly don't care. I know what a single human being can do per acre of tomatoes with documentation of those varieties. The idea this is jealousy is absurd.

So, I know the numbers don't add up. It's fiction - if you farmed for a living, you'd understand it better.

March 14, 2013	#84
surf4grrl Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: field of dreams Posts: 97	I appreciate you trying to drag Tom into this but this isn't about Tom Wagner or single seed descent. This is about Sweet Beverly, Sweet Sharon and the conflicting stories many of us have gotten and continued to get. I bring up the "year round growing" because it is the trope that we keep hearing is "we can grow to an F7" is 3-4 years for so very many varieties (what is it this year 3,000 varieties????) - are coming out and its suspect given that the single supposedly "stable variety" found on an abandoned farm now has various incarnations. I've seen the numbers, and the stats, and honestly don't care. I know what a single human being can do per acre of tomatoes with documentation of those varieties. The idea this is jealousy is absurd. So, I know the numbers don't add up. It's fiction - if you farmed for a living, you'd understand it better.