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  • From: "Brigette Leach" <avalonfarmshomegrown AT earthlink.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] Heirloom Tomatoes
  • Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:52:12 -0400

Jean,
Thanks for your input. I've started red and yellow Brandywine and German
Green. Since I intend to use them in our subscription baskets sales isn't
so much an issue. It is curious what people will buy though. We laugh
together about one customer wanting the smallest zucchini that we have and
the next one wanting the biggest one, the one that we would throw in the
compost pile! At one of our markets a particular man will buy the 4 biggest
beets we have if our adult daughter is there, just two if it's my mother
in-law, and none if my husband is there. Guess he likes Kelly. Go figure.
And he eats the beets raw.

I hope you'll keep the list posted on the progress and results of those
Russian seeds.

Where is Good Thunder?

Brigette Leach
avalonfarmshomegrown AT earthlink.net
Avalon Farms Premium Homegrown
Climax MI 49034
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> [Original Message]
> From: Jean Lundquist <gardener AT mnic.net>
> To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: 3/31/2004 9:03:06 PM
> Subject: [Market-farming] Heirloom Tomatoes
>
> I'm in southern Minnesota, but the heirlooms I am most partial to (because
> they do well here) are the Brandywine. The pink variety seems less prone
to
> splitting than the red.
>
> Aunt Ruby's German Green tomato is another tasty variety, but many folks
> won't buy it, thinking it is not ripe, and some first-time growers don't
> know when it IS ripe.
>
> Both are great big, juicy, sweet, burger-sized tomatoes, and the taste is
> out of this world!
>
> Last fall, our local newspaper ran a story about a woman who got tomato
> seeds from a relative in Russia 40 years ago, and has been saving seeds
ever
> since. I sweet-talked her out of nine seeds, and all are poking their
> little green heads up from their grow-cups in the basement! I have no
idea
> what to expect, but they've been her favorite for 40 years, so I'll give
> them a try. Perhaps next fall, I'll have some to share :)
>
> Jean Lundquist
> Jean's Gardens
> Good Thunder, MN
>
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  • RE: [Market-farming] Heirloom Tomatoes, Brigette Leach, 04/16/2004

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