Discuss your tips, tricks and experiences growing and selling vegetables, fruits, flowers, plants and herbs.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Mid-Atlantic right on the line of Zone 7a and 7b
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Heirloom and open pollinated types from Wild Boar Farms.
Just need to produce at this point. Everything else is worked out...other than getting boxes for packing/delivery. I'm leaning towards 10lb single layer boxes. How do you do it? |
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Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: New Castle, Virginia
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I am growing quite a few tomatoes from Wild Boar Farms myself: Pink Boar Cosmic Eclipse Blue Cream Berries Indigo Apple Lucid Gem Trenton's Tiger Berkley Tie Die Beauty King Solar Flare Indigo Blue Beauty Restaurants love the appearance. Not all of these varieties have the best taste in my opinion though. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2014
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Gotcha.
I am growing Dark Queen, Large Barred Boar, Black and Brown Boar, BTD, PBTD, Black Beauty, and Blue Chocolate. Somehow we didn't overlap, lol. So, do you weigh each box since they are all different amounts and then multiply by your price per pound? |
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Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: New Castle, Virginia
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With about four times more tomato plants this year, I have to take a different approach. I found an old postal scale on Craiglist ($25) which will weigh up to 60#. I plan on weighing the box first and then filling with tomatoes and subtracting the weight of the box: |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: central utah
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BigVV,
I have some of those radish pods too and they are so great but for me, it doesn't seem like it could be worth picking to sell. There are other small fruits like this; currants, gooseberries and rose hips (wild) come to mind. I would have to sell at something like 50$/lb to make money. Do you have an idea of how much time it takes to pick those pods? Maybe my old fingers are just slow... |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
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Any of you guys know how much radish pods would sell for?
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2014
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No help here. That's a new one to me. I've never heard of that for sale in all my years. You are on the cutting edge so you might have to start the trend and set a price for others to follow.
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Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Kansas City, MO
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![]() I saw one stand with them last Saturday. I didn't catch the price but I will look for them this Saturday. -Zach
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
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I pick em as stalks and was going to try selling in bunches. I'm thinking 3$ per
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Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Kansas City, MO
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That's what I saw last weekend. I want to say they were a $1 a bunch -Zach
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Tomatovillian™
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Oh god not worth the bother at 1$. How big were the bunches?
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: central utah
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Sounds like a good idea though; get the customer to do the work.
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Join Date: Oct 2015
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Maybe 3-5 stalks.
-Zach
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2015
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Went to the river market again today. Tomatoes are still $3 a pound. Two people had them for 3.50. A small basket was $5 a piece for tomatoes. Small basket of blueberries were $7-8. No radish pods though this week.
The tomatoes were Big Dena. From a google search it's a commercial greenhouse variety. -Zach
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2014
Location: South Georgia Zone 8a
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We are getting 3/lb. for beefsteak and $5/pint for cherries. We sell at a community market. We also market on FB. We could sell more if we lowered the price because we have a bunch of "red and round" people. But if any of the R&R crowd ever try our heirlooms, they always come back for more....
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