philcaseinWPA
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1st one takes forever then after a week why did we plant so many?
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1st one takes forever then after a week why did we plant so many?
parisspringstom
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We are currently making salsa and juice. Every table top is full of tomatoes
philcaseinWPA
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these are all picked for retail sale at our own market and farmers' markets we attend. about 2000 plants in this field. we also have over 4000 pepper plants as well as smaller amounts of other vegetables.
this was the same field about 2 months ago.
this was the same field about 2 months ago.
DoubleO7
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- Crystal River, FL
Were those never staked up?
In southwest michigan they grow alot like in the O.P. Picture.
100's of acres, some of the first to be picked go to fresh market sales.
But after going thru the field twice, they cropdust to make the entire field and all still on the vine to ripen.
Then all get picked for the processing plant.
Some farms have several semi loads of those stakes all bundled up and reused year after year.
Bruce from Can.
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- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
My wife and I used to do some market gardening too. We did 2,000 tomatoes a 1,000 peppers, along with sweet corn, cucumbers, squash, zucchini ,Spanish onions and ornamental gourds. We sold a lot of fall decorations and pumpkins, and sheaves of corn stalks. A pile of work, but fun too.
philcaseinWPA
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SW MI is way different than here. We are actually small time growers even for fresh
market growers. Still keeps us busy but not big enough to make a living at it.
Helps pay for the farming habit.
Phil
market growers. Still keeps us busy but not big enough to make a living at it.
Helps pay for the farming habit.
Phil
On the west coast of California in my area, a lot of tomatoes were grown. Not so much anymore. My brother would get dump truck loads of culls. the packers would dump them for brothers cattle, saved the expense of going to the county dump. The cattle seemed to like them. Stan
Tim in New York
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So is that a tomato combine?
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