A Colorful Market Table

[clkeiper]

Cole, are those cherries the artisian mix?
If so or not, I had my first one the other day (I ordered totally tomatoes) and it was fabulous.

[Cole_Robbie]

The Artisan Mix is in there. I'm a big fan of Fred Hempel's varieties. Added to it are, if I can recall them all:

Sun Gold/Peach/Lemon/Chocola/Green
Helsing ★★★★★★★★ Blues
Chang Li
Hssiao His Hung Shih
Prune Verte
Tiger-Like
White Cherry
Amethyst Cream
Brown Berry
something marked "Ambrosia" that gives me orange cherries, one small one and one big one.

Next year, Helsing ★★★★★★★★ Blues will be replaced by Dancing With Smurfs, HHHS will drop off in favor of Chang Li, and I will also drop Sun Lemon and Sun Green, as well as Tiger-Like.

[Wi-sunflower]

Worth,

Yes it is and if it and cow stuff isn't "composted" or worked into the soil, can be quite dangerous.

Several years ago, I think in Arkansas, a supposed "organic" farmer sprayed raw hog manure on his growing cantaloup crop. I believe melons were already on the plants. That was 1 of 3 big recalls in just a couple of years. That was for Salmonella I think. I tried to find an article on it but it was too long ago (more than 5 years)

Those big ag failures were what screwed us farmers market growers as that's when many health depts changed their "sampling" rules. We could sell many more melons and heirloom tomatoes when we could give samples.

Carol

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Wi-sunflower

Worth,

Yes it is and if it and cow stuff isn't "composted" or worked into the soil, can be quite dangerous.

Several years ago, I think in Arkansas, a supposed "organic" farmer sprayed raw hog manure on his growing cantaloup crop. I believe melons were already on the plants. That was 1 of 3 big recalls in just a couple of years. That was for Salmonella I think. I tried to find an article on it but it was too long ago (more than 5 years)

Those big ag failures were what screwed us farmers market growers as that's when many health depts changed their "sampling" rules. We could sell many more melons and heirloom tomatoes when we could give samples.

Carol

Typical knee jerk reaction.
They are making us fill out a form before we can stand on a ladder at work now.
If we go over 6 feet they make us have a meeting and we have to fill out a level 2 permit before we can work.
This takes 2 days to do it.

Just about done with the idiots.

Worth

[AJSears]

This is my second year growing a garden. I only had around 50 plants last year. This year I went big and I am doing farmers market. This was tonight's table.

[coronabarb]

Angela, I have the SAME sign for my booth, except it is 6 ft long. I got it on a Staples special deal. The tomatoes look great. Here in Oregon, one can be certified "organic" (and that is the only way you can use that word) or you can be "Certified Naturally Grown" which is a different organization. Other than those, we are allowed by law to use the words "No Synthetics Used"...which is what our sign says.

[AJSears]

Ya, That pi$$is me off! I can understand not being able to use there seal "Certified Organic", but to make a word (Organic) illegal to use is such crap! I wanted to use "grown using all organic practices" but I figured that would be pushing it.

[Redbaron]

Originally Posted by coronabarb

Angela, I have the SAME sign for my booth, except it is 6 ft long. I got it on a Staples special deal. The tomatoes look great. Here in Oregon, one can be certified "organic" (and that is the only way you can use that word) or you can be "Certified Naturally Grown" which is a different organization. Other than those, we are allowed by law to use the words "No Synthetics Used"...which is what our sign says.

as far as I know, if you use organic practices, and sell less that 5,000 dollars a year, you can legally call it organic. Local laws may vary, but that's the federal regulations on the matter.

Organic FAQs

[Cole_Robbie]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

Green was the color of today's market table:
http://i.imgur.com/kLSCLEi.jpg

I brought 180 plants, and I took home 18. It was a good day. Seven of my ten flats were dwarfs.

Today was like deja vu all over again. Here was my table this morning: http://i.imgur.com/k5QcMjI.jpg

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

Today was like deja vu all over again. Here was my table this morning: http://i.imgur.com/k5QcMjI.jpg

Sounds like you are having avery successful season. The plants look wonderful. Congrats!

[Cole_Robbie]

thanks

I need to give up on trying to sell plants of green when ripe varieties. It just isn't happening, even when I have grown the variety before and tell customers it tastes good. No one can wrap their mind around the idea of a ripe tomato being green. I can sell every other color, but not green

[bower]

Yeah that is an awesome and wow long table. Glad to see your plants had no frosty high tunnel problems.

[Fred Hempel]

I always delude myself into thinking "maybe this year Martha Stewart will rave about GWR tomatoes and everything will change"

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

thanks

I need to give up on trying to sell plants of green when ripe varieties. It just isn't happening, even when I have grown the variety before and tell customers it tastes good. No one can wrap their mind around the idea of a ripe tomato being green. I can sell every other color, but not green

[AJSears]

I can't sell any other then red and purple/black, so your doing better than me! I gave some white/orange/green tomato plants to a church garden. Maybe I'll get more interest in them next year?

[BigVanVader]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

thanks

I need to give up on trying to sell plants of green when ripe varieties. It just isn't happening, even when I have grown the variety before and tell customers it tastes good. No one can wrap their mind around the idea of a ripe tomato being green. I can sell every other color, but not green

Ditto, I haven't sold a single Beryl Beauty and all the other Dwarf Project varieties sold faster than anything. I don't grow the GWR's anymore either for the same reason.