Urgent Tomato Thread!

[rapunzel]

I will be harvesting my first tomato this morning!

 

[Hop]

aren't there usually a couple Ga/Ala stands on 98?!?! ya'll aren't helping...you're just bragging...unless you're gonna offload a couple on poor ole hop... :roll:

 

[rapunzel]

There is usually a guy on the side of the road just east of Beach Clean car wash -- he had some excellent tomatoes, but I haven't seen him out yet. Since our tomatoes are all ripening right now, he'll probably be out in a week or so if the lack of rain hasn't decimated the tomato crops around here.

Hop, I'm making a Cotton's run this afternoon unless it rains. Would you like me to pick up some extras?

 

[Kurt]

The maters (and other veggies) you get at stands now are often the same as from the grocery store unless they are in season locally. Cotton's, when they were in SoWal, only got good maters in the summer from Sand Mt. Alabama.

 

[rapunzel]

I had some from Cotton's last week that weren't bad. They didn't compare to the creole's, but they weren't bad. The ones I've had from Publix were mealy and bad.

Anyone have a better source?

And why, for the love of all that is holy, is there not a farmer's market in Walton County?

 

[Smiling JOe]

I had some from Cotton's last week that weren't bad. They didn't compare to the creole's, but they weren't bad. The ones I've had from Publix were mealy and bad.

Anyone have a better source?

And why, for the love of all that is holy, is there not a farmer's market in Walton County?

Kurt is right about the road side stands around here getting their produce from the same sources as the groceries. If they were vine ripened tomatoes, they wouldn't be sitting on a truck full of them sitting out in the sun. They would spoil too quickly. They are most likely harvested before they are ripened, which means they will not be nearly as sweet as homegrown maters.

The reason you cannot find a local farmers market in SoWal is because land is to pricey to grow tomatoes and potatoes on it. It is much more profitable to grow houses. It doesn't take much of a green thumb to grow maters and you can even grow them in 5 gal buckets on your porch, if you don't have a yard.

 

[Kurt]

I had some from Cotton's last week that weren't bad. They didn't compare to the creole's, but they weren't bad. The ones I've had from Publix were mealy and bad.

Anyone have a better source?

And why, for the love of all that is holy, is there not a farmer's market in Walton County?

For the Health Of It often has good ones, The Ugly Tomatoes at Publix are OK, Tony's Nursery near Elmo's sells them off the plant.

 

[Uncle Timmy]

Hop, this is a very serious matter and the most important thread ever started on this entire board. not kidding. there are no good maters in sowal. period. I don't care what people tell you.

I like your thinking missy. Maybe General Tootsie needs to rally the troops and start a tomato growing movement.

Victory Tomato Gardens, ala WWII.

 

[scooterbug44]

I used to get great produce from a guy who would sell at Gulf Place on saturdays, then he disappeared. It was like a mini farmer's market and if you gave him a week's notice he'd get special items. Anyone know where he went?

 

[Hop]

There is usually a guy on the side of the road just east of Beach Clean car wash -- he had some excellent tomatoes, but I haven't seen him out yet. Since our tomatoes are all ripening right now, he'll probably be out in a week or so if the lack of rain hasn't decimated the tomato crops around here.

Hop, I'm making a Cotton's run this afternoon unless it rains. Would you like me to pick up some extras?

thanks punzy...i'm too busy to try and meet up somewhere...i'll try the place by elmos...we grew some last year that tasted good but the harvest was pretty weak and eventually the bugs got to them...despite all my efforts to keep them off...