Tomato Day results

Wi-sunflower · August 30, 2009

Well it's been a long week for me. Lot's of highs and lows this week. It's over now and I'm tired.

I was a wreak most of the morning. It was good that I had some good friends that come over to help get it going.

We only had about 25 to 30 varieties picked and on the table by the start at noon. There were maybe about 25 people there by noon too. Little by little we got more varieties on the table til the 30+ feet of table was pretty much full.

The people were understanding about the lack of some of the advertised varieties as some just didn't have anything ripe yet.

People were able to go into the fields and find those they liked on the table or find some we didn't have time to get. A few of the popular varieties were totally picked of ripe ones by the end of the day. Black Cherry and Howard German (a roma) had had quite a few out there in the morning too.

We made a fair amount of mistakes today that we hopefully will remember to correct for next year. Mainly we will need to get the samples picked and sorted by type on Thurs and Sat. Fri is picking for market day. The weeding was still happening til at least noon on Sat tho this year so we just couldn't get much done ahead.

We also need to have a registration of the people so we can email them when their favs are ripe or when plants are ready or ???

I have to say that the weather mostly co-operated well today. Cooler than we would have liked, but it was sunny and less windy than yesterday. Considering the weather this year and this week hasn't been very good for tomatoes at all, things went pretty well. There were even a few semi-ripe tomatoes in the varieties that the crew had picked without labeling on Thurs. No way I thought that would happen with the rain and cool weather we had.

We didn't get a count of people at all, but there had to be at least 50 cars, most with more than 1 person. Several even brought the kids. A few kids found out that they DO like, some, tomatoes when there are so many different flavors to choose from.

I didn't get to take very many pics as I was just running in too many directions all day. I'll post some when I have a chance to look at them later.

Now that things are fairly well weeded, hopefully we will get a few more weeks of decent weather so I will have tomatoes for seeds and getting some variety pics. Lots of work yet to do this year.

Carol

August 30, 2009	#1
Wi-sunflower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 2,591	Tomato Day results Well it's been a long week for me. Lot's of highs and lows this week. It's over now and I'm tired. I was a wreak most of the morning. It was good that I had some good friends that come over to help get it going. We only had about 25 to 30 varieties picked and on the table by the start at noon. There were maybe about 25 people there by noon too. Little by little we got more varieties on the table til the 30+ feet of table was pretty much full. The people were understanding about the lack of some of the advertised varieties as some just didn't have anything ripe yet. People were able to go into the fields and find those they liked on the table or find some we didn't have time to get. A few of the popular varieties were totally picked of ripe ones by the end of the day. Black Cherry and Howard German (a roma) had had quite a few out there in the morning too. We made a fair amount of mistakes today that we hopefully will remember to correct for next year. Mainly we will need to get the samples picked and sorted by type on Thurs and Sat. Fri is picking for market day. The weeding was still happening til at least noon on Sat tho this year so we just couldn't get much done ahead. We also need to have a registration of the people so we can email them when their favs are ripe or when plants are ready or ??? I have to say that the weather mostly co-operated well today. Cooler than we would have liked, but it was sunny and less windy than yesterday. Considering the weather this year and this week hasn't been very good for tomatoes at all, things went pretty well. There were even a few semi-ripe tomatoes in the varieties that the crew had picked without labeling on Thurs. No way I thought that would happen with the rain and cool weather we had. We didn't get a count of people at all, but there had to be at least 50 cars, most with more than 1 person. Several even brought the kids. A few kids found out that they DO like, some, tomatoes when there are so many different flavors to choose from. I didn't get to take very many pics as I was just running in too many directions all day. I'll post some when I have a chance to look at them later. Now that things are fairly well weeded, hopefully we will get a few more weeks of decent weather so I will have tomatoes for seeds and getting some variety pics. Lots of work yet to do this year. Carol