Tomatoes are $1 apiece at local farm stand

I think that American's are the only people on earth fortunate enough to complain with their mouths full.

I'm more than willing to pay someone else to produce my food because quite frankly I'm too lazy to do it myself.

Every American farmer makes a huge investment and assumes a great risk to produce $1.00 tomatoes and $5.00 a quart strawberries.

Supporting local farmers and food producers is a matter of national security and should be taken very seriously.

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Rant over for now! ;)
 
Aunt Bea said:
Supporting local farmers and food producers is a matter of national security and should be taken very seriously.
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I absolutely agree, Aunt Bea. I remember learning in elementary school how we produced our own food and fed ourselves as a nation. I'd like to see a return to that, before imports and exports muck it up.
 
We paid $1.88 for one tomato from Savemart last week. We got about 4 nice tomatoes out of our garden and then between getting tired of hauling water from town (our well is salt water so we don't use it on plants) , the sun burning it up and our 3 little kittens playing in it we gave up on our garden. Maybe we'll be somewhere else next spring so that we can have a garden.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I think that American's are the only people on earth fortunate enough to complain with their mouths full.

I'm more than willing to pay someone else to produce my food because quite frankly I'm too lazy to do it myself.

Every American farmer makes a huge investment and assumes a great risk to produce $1.00 tomatoes and $5.00 a quart strawberries.

Supporting local farmers and food producers is a matter of national security and should be taken very seriously.

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Rant over for now! ;)
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Great post, especially the first line!
 
Stopped at a farm market on the way home yesterday, one small square container 5$.
A small basket 17$. The only ones buying were tourists no distancing only a few masks.
They are now on my list for virus gouging.:devilish::devilish::devilish:
 
This year I planted 6 tomato plants.
We put up an old orange plastic snow fence to keep the deer out.
While we were away tall grass/weeds almost smothered the plants.

I got into the patch,pulled weeds .
Raked up some of the saw dust from Hubby's firewood cutting.
Spread that around which helped keep the weeds down.

I think the sharp edges of saw dust are keeping the slugs away.
Tomatoes are slow ripening this year.
I'm watering them every other night.

We've had some to eat.
Hope to get enough to can,, may freeze the ones that are ripe now.

Vegetable or flower gardening is a year around job,,no matter where you live.
 
fmdog44 said:
Texas tomatoes suck. Growing up in Illinois the tomatoes were fabulous and we ate them like apples.
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We, as children would build a campfire and roast tomatoes on a stick until slightly charred and eat them with salt and pepper. Talk about delish. Well, to us they were amazing.
 
Have a few plants producing tomatoes, little yellow cherry size , I am limiting myself to one per day. SOOO good fresh.
Finding that coffee grounds are helping to keep bugs and other away.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I think that American's are the only people on earth fortunate enough to complain with their mouths full.

I'm more than willing to pay someone else to produce my food because quite frankly I'm too lazy to do it myself.

Every American farmer makes a huge investment and assumes a great risk to produce $1.00 tomatoes and $5.00 a quart strawberries.

Supporting local farmers and food producers is a matter of national security and should be taken very seriously.

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Rant over for now! ;)
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Now THAT'S one terrific post Bea!! 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾 Perfectly said.
 
I picked about 50 grape tomatoes from our garden a couple of days ago....and there are probably twice that many ripening soon. Several times a day we snack on a couple....Best Candy I've ever found.
 
If you get a ripe tomato for $1.00 that's a good price. The ones in the grocery stores are picked unripe for shipping. The difference in price is worth the price of admission. Also it depends on the variety and the thickness of the skin.
 
I got a couple raised bed vegetable gardens ready to go, whats the best thing to grow this time of year?
I'm thinking - Beets, Carrots, Cauliflower.
 

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