WineLovers Discussion Group

Karen/NoCA wrote:

Jenise wrote:Paid $6/lb for beautiful locally-grown heirlooms in the Canadian Islands over the weekend, including some late varieties like green zebras. Funny, the Island I was on was only about 20 miles west of where I live and at about the same latitude, but we're not even close to getting tomatoes.

Do you suppose they are grown under row covers? I know that several of our growers here, especially if they are in the foothills, use row covers.

Could well be for that all-important early start.

I visited the greenmarket nearest my home. The vendor's scale had broken so they were selling at $4/pint and $7/quart. (I heaped a quart box high!)

Picked my first tomato today. Smallish, got a couple of spots on it that'll have to be excised, but By Dad!, it's My First Tomato this year. Were I to allocate the entire bush and water and so forth against this one tomato, it'd be something like $40/lb. However, there are tomatoes and blossoms aplenty on the bush.

John

Bought some wonderful local grown from a nearby farm tomatoes Sunday from our ShopRite store for .99 a LB. that were fantastic!

Drew

I paid $1.50 at the Farmer's Market last week for a few to supplement my garden tomatoes.

Guess we'll be going back to the farmer's market or nearby farm for tomatoes. Deer ate the tops off most of our tomato plants and also desimated our beans plants.

Paid $1 for Shady Ladies last weekend at the market. Heirloom varieties were more in the $3-$4 range.