Tomatoes a big success!!!!!

[NCTIM]

Hey Worth,

You're a good man.

I just read this thread and I enjoyed your story.

I had a similar deal happen to me this week. I had just picked my first dwarf project tomatoes, a Big Beef and a Kalman's Hungarian Pink (1st without BER) along with a bunch of Sungolds. I also picked 6 squash and cut some okra. I came in set them on the counter and went back outside. When I came back in my wife was putting them all in a grocery bag to give to her girlfriend who had stopped by. I didn't really know what to say because this was only the 2nd time I had met her girlfriend .... my wife was telling her about all the tomato plants I am growing and that we had more than enough. I'm thinkin' we will have more than enough but not yet and I got to keep those Bashful tomatoes. So I explained things to her and gave her all but the Bashfuls. I still felt bad about it. To make it up, I gave her a bananna plant.

I too really enjoy giving tomatoes away and I hope she comes over again in a couple of weeks when I hope to have more than enough.

Tim

[Earl]

Nothing like having great friends, and if they enjoy heirloom tomatoes even better; that is, if they like to grow their own and don't eat all of yours. :-) :-) My wife's dentist had never tasted an heirloom so I gave him at least 5 lbs. He and his wife ate all of them that night. So you know he's hooked. :-) But he's got me sort of worried, he didn't ask for any plants, and you know what that means.

[dcarch]

Originally Posted by Earl

-----My wife's dentist had never tasted an heirloom so I gave him at least 5 lbs. He and his wife ate all of them that night. So you know he's hooked. :-) But he's got me sort of worried, he didn't ask for any plants, and you know what that means.

I think that means free dental care for your family for the rest of your lifes.

dcarch

[mouse]

My doctor is a most wonderful person, except that he has this humongous picture perfect lawn stretching to the horizon --more than three acres. He calls it 'preserving his viewscape' or some such!

I have been pleading with him for years to put in a little home orchard, vegetable bed etc., at least in the back three acres of lawn and he is very keen---in theory! So this year, his wife, another busy doctor, suddenly got it into her head to dig up a huge flower bed.

Then, the son, 11 years old, turns out to be a keen gardener, and insisted that he be allowed to plant a few tomatoes! Mind you, first ever in their and his lifetime(s). So hsi little sister, 8, wants her special tomato plot, too, next to her brothers, all in that single monster flower bed of Mom's!

Now it already was late May, and all the heirloom seedlings I raised for friends had gone to their homes. I scrape the bottom, and come up with a Kimberly, Costoluto Fiorentino, Doucet Producer, Aunt Ginny's Purple and St. Pierre, for the boy plus a set of Mexico Midget. For his sister who wants something pretty as well, Red and and Beam's Yellow Pear, and another yellow pear that is a cherry type, i believe.

I have warned them again and again of the vigor of all the vines and the dangers of Miracle-gro. If the patch does not turn out to be an impenetrable mess, it will be interesting to watch the two children's reaction to their first harvest of heirlooms.

m

[hasshoes]

Congrats Worh!. . . both on the tomatoes and the really good friends.