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  • From: Rachel Evans <rachel AT sunshinefarmmarket.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] stand-out varieties
  • Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:19:46 -0700


I second the thumbs up on Mariana paste tomato from Johnny's.  They're huge, beautiful, and tasty.  And I second the thumbs down on Orange Blossom.  They're bland and not productive.  We did okay with mountain gold this year for an yellow tomato.

We switched from Suyo Long, to Armenian (Johnnys) with happy results.

Anyone grown Momotaro tomato?  Never heard it but then another grower brought it to our taste-off and won--against heirlooms!





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Rachel Evans
The Sunshine Farm
37 Highway 97A
Chelan, WA 98816

509-670-8958




On Sep 17, 2009, at 12:58 PM, jay sleichter wrote:

Stand-out Varieties: 

Cauliflower: Cassius- First time growing, every plant I put out, produced a perfect snow white head.  Huge leaves to keep it blanched.

Tomatoes: Estiva from Johnny's  These were in my hoop house. They are doing great.  Great flavor and quantity.  They are smaller in size, but I put them in baskets and sell without a problem.

Big Beef:  Still picking, averaging 32 pounds a plant.

Tomatoberry: Neat shape, long shelf life

Tumbling Toms:  Put two plants in a 10 inch hanging basket.  Very beautiful and productive. Some people are still picking them from June.

Cavali Zucchini: parthenocarpic squash VERY PRODUCTIVE!  I planted these and Perfect Pick.  I probably picked 4 to 1 ratio of these wonderful light green zucchini to the green ones.  To bad, I sold 1 to every 4 of the dark green ones!

Vertina, Alibi and H-19 little leaf cucumbers: Great flavor and production

Heirloom Cucumber Dragon's Egg from Bakers Creek.  Great production and flavor hard sales, but always repeat customers.

Low Points: 
Orange Blossom Tomatoes, nice color, low production, 
Suyo Long Cucumbers, blah!  
Cajun Delight Okra, the old Clemson Spineless put this variety to shame.  All American winner, not for me.  
Saharo Pepper, Give me back the variety it replaced
All my melons, my fault too much rain and not enough time equals weed patch and no melons!  Ok, a few. No sales.

These were all grown in North Central Kansas.

Jay


--- On Thu, 9/17/09, Curtis Millsap <cmillsap1 AT yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Curtis Millsap <cmillsap1 AT yahoo.com>
Subject: [Market-farming] stand-out varieties
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 1:55 PM

As our season begins to wind down, I've been thinking about what I will and won't grow for next year, and thinking particularly about high and low points in this year's seed choice. My favorite item I grew this year were F1 sun jewell Asian melons from Johnnys. We grew them in the greenhouse, on clip and twine trellising, and they are the best melon I've ever eaten.  They started producing in May, and are still going (although certainly slower now, and some mildew problems).  Our farmer's market sales of these have been pretty good, and once people have had one they come back for more. We were selling them for $2/ piece (each melon is usually around 2-3 lbs?). We've grown them in the field this year and in the past, and they were barely worth eating. I think they are getting too much moisture outside, but the greenhouse seems to really suit them well.  The low point for me this year was a row of cucumbers, which I thought were supposed to be Burpless 26.  I expected something similar to Marketmore, or sweet slice, but these were huge, and often mishapen.  Flavor was fine, but difficult to sell because they were too big. I'm wondering if I got the wrong label, or if this is what they are usually like.  I was also hoping others would share their favorite variety of the year, and perhaps any outstanding failures as well.  

Thanks,
Curtis

Millsap Farm
Springfield MO
www.millsapfarms.com



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