nice question to hear...

biscgolf · July 31, 2011

among my wares at yesterday's farmer's market was the largest tomato i've picked so far this year- a striped german which weighed in at 2.3 pounds.- not the biggest i've ever grown by any means but a nice one no doubt.

our market manager will come around early in the day to several vendors and we'll give her some stuff to display at her tables- i gave her that tomato among other things.

later in the day one of the BIG produce vendors (there are a lot of large conventional method growers at our market and only 2 of us out of 40 or so who are chemical free and MUCH smaller) there asks me: "how do you get that tomato so big without using chemicals?"

**carolyn137** · July 31, 2011

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Originally Posted by biscgolf

among my wares at yesterday's farmer's market was the largest tomato i've picked so far this year- a striped german which weighed in at 2.3 pounds.- not the biggest i've ever grown by any means but a nice one no doubt.

our market manager will come around early in the day to several vendors and we'll give her some stuff to display at her tables- i gave her that tomato among other things.

later in the day one of the BIG produce vendors (there are a lot of large conventional method growers at our market and only 2 of us out of 40 or so who are chemical free and MUCH smaller) there asks me: "how do you get that tomato so big without using chemicals?"

Next time you see that BIG produce vendor, please give him or her a link to Tomatoville and ask her/him to register and ask the same question and I'm sure he or she would get some interesting and perhaps even amusing answers but mostly correct answers to the question I would imagine.

RayR · July 31, 2011

It's disturbing when you think many people in the produce business have been conditioned to believe that you can't get a big tomato without synthetic fertilizers. I guess the world was deprived of big tomatoes before the chemical factories started pushing their wares.

dice · August 2, 2011

"You inject them with helium right before they blush."

kygreg · August 2, 2011

I know I would blush if someone injected me with helium.

dice · August 2, 2011

("Oh, sorry, I was thinking of weather balloons. Ummm, ....")

July 31, 2011	#1
biscgolf Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Virginia Posts: 353	nice question to hear... among my wares at yesterday's farmer's market was the largest tomato i've picked so far this year- a striped german which weighed in at 2.3 pounds.- not the biggest i've ever grown by any means but a nice one no doubt. our market manager will come around early in the day to several vendors and we'll give her some stuff to display at her tables- i gave her that tomato among other things. later in the day one of the BIG produce vendors (there are a lot of large conventional method growers at our market and only 2 of us out of 40 or so who are chemical free and MUCH smaller) there asks me: "how do you get that tomato so big without using chemicals?"

August 2, 2011	#4
dice Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: PNW Posts: 4,743	"You inject them with helium right before they blush." __________________ -- alias

August 2, 2011	#6
dice Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: PNW Posts: 4,743	("Oh, sorry, I was thinking of weather balloons. Ummm, ....") __________________ -- alias

July 31, 2011	#3
RayR Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Cheektowaga, NY Posts: 2,466	It's disturbing when you think many people in the produce business have been conditioned to believe that you can't get a big tomato without synthetic fertilizers. I guess the world was deprived of big tomatoes before the chemical factories started pushing their wares.

August 2, 2011	#5
kygreg Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: kentucky Posts: 1,019	I know I would blush if someone injected me with helium.