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  • From: "Wiediger, Alison" <awiediger AT Hart.k12.ky.us>
  • To: 'market farming' <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: fw-tomato growers
  • Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 08:09:34 -0600




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> From: Elizabeth Pike[SMTP:pike AT always-online.com]
>
> Question from non-wired market gardener:
>
> What percentage of your crops are heirloom/open pollinated tomatoes?
>
> Do you conduct taste testings (aka Shep Ogden)?
>
> Do you successive plant for fall harvest, one of the short season/cold
> storage varieties?
>
> Liz Pike
>
From Alison, Au Naturel Farm

About 50% of our full season tomatoes are a OP variety named Tropic.
Most of the rest of our "market" tomatoes are hybrids, although we do grow
some heirlooms for ourselves. Most are too fragile to carry to Farmers'
Market and disease resistance on many is too low for us. We transplant
tomatoes 4 times. March 15th in coldframes for earliest, April 20th for our
first field, July 1st for our fall tomatoes (usually first frost about Oct
20th) and Sept 1st on coldframes for late fall, early winter. We picked our
last tomatoes on December 21st in '99 - out of the unheated coldframes. We
did plant long-keeper, but the regular tomatoes seemed to ripen in the
basement just as well, and tasted better - we had those way into January.




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  • fw-tomato growers, Elizabeth Pike, 03/05/2000
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    • RE: fw-tomato growers, Wiediger, Alison, 03/06/2000

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