Who's coming to MAGTAG?

16 years ago

I realize I haven't been keeping track of how many folks are participating this year, especially since I've also been posting on that other Tomato-oriented site. The third site - The Garden Forums - appears to have disappeared.

So far, these are the folks who have expressed an interest. Please let me know if you are still coming, and whether you will be bringing family or friends:

From GW:

gflynn

tomatoes4ever

janetM

Trudi_d

pumpkinhead1961

From T-ville:

bluekat

Dunkel

Adenn1

spkfero

feralcatfriend

Cecilia

Other:

Chris, Suzy, Maggie & Ed (CeciliaÂs brother and family)

Theresa (CeciliaÂs sister)

Edwin (CeciliaÂs dad, the birthday boy)

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kimka
16 years ago
I'm coming. I haven't figured out what I'm goingto make yet. Maybe banana nut bread or brownies.

My tomatoes on the deck went toes up in the last two weeks so I won't have any tomatoes to offer.

KimKa
lynnt
16 years ago
Richard and I will be coming (he'll head off in his canoe again, but count him in for at least one BLT!)

My tomatoes are also not doing well, but I'll be bringing ground cherries -- a low-growing tomatillo relative.

Lynn
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I will surely be there and the kids are making awards and a Tip Jar. Many of my plants are past due but some are just getting ready. Last night the wind knocked down a few but I should be fine with quite few things especially my MORX growout cherries which ended up in 5 or 6 different colors. A real popuri of colors and lots of flavors. I am going to put 20 MORX seeds per/coin envelop and make them available so others can try this. Makes a very colorful tomato bowl. Greg
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Tomato Folk, Thanks much to Cecilia for all her hard work and for bringing all her kin; I had no idea she was one of 7. Cecilia's had folks sign in and she said we had 42 people. That beat's last years count which was 36 people attending. It made it fun to have so many folks from so many places. (HI, NJ, PA, VA and MD). The number of tomato varieties was down to somewhere around 50 varieties which was partly because we started a week earlier while the tomatoes started a week later. NO ONE TALKED TO THE TOMATOES! They were all in the dressing room discussing this before the show. How rude they said ;-) Also we were missing Trudi who contributes so many and Dunkel (Doug) from WV, who was with us 2 years ago and grew about 60 plants of many different WV varieties but didn't like to eat them. (huh?) I counted the empty beer bottles from my homebrew that I was "recycling" last night and 29 were empty. That's impressive! I didn't know that folks would care much except for the novelty of the idea. As far as how the competition went, I was hoping to test the quality of the "Emily" tomato in this competition and as you can see from Cecilia's results "Emily" came in 4th place. Don't let this fool you because it was the highest ranking Large Pink beefsteak among the winners. Over the past 3 years we have always found that cherries have come in way ahead. This suprised some folks that are part of other gatherings. Perhaps it is a Maryland weather or soil issue? Perhaps, statistically 3 years is too small of a sample? Black Cherry and Sungold are always up top and other cherries are in the top ten that include Dr. Carolyn Pink and White Current. This puts "Emily" on top of a whole class of tomatoes that includes, red and pink, large hearts and beefsteaks. Of course this only one competition and I doubt that it will be repeated next year. If it does and this tomato continues to produce with the same size and vigor, I would say that this a variety worth keeping. I have been debating this question since it seems like "Just another" large pink beefsteak to add to so many others that are already so good. Hopefully it will stand the test of time. The parents of this variety are Prue and Marianna' Peace. These are good parents. On that note, one of the winners from last year that was also a cross from similar parents but the F3s segregated so much this year that it was not the same at all from last year. Too bad really but some of those lines still seem interesting and there's always next year :-) The "Penny" method of judging has one distinct weakness. That is that it favors early entries in popular locations. We could dampen these effects by having enterants interlace their entries with other competetors on other tables. I may add that there was general agreement from the regulars that his was the most fun we had at a MAGTAG event so far. It seems that many thing were in our favor this year. The weather was perfect. Hope to see you all next year. Greg
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Cecelia, I need to amend my "Will bring" list due to the presence of hamburger in my freezer. I will get 1. Plastic Cups 2. A limited number of hotdogs, sausages, and ground beef hamburgers (some cooked rare:-)) 3. Rolls for sauages 4. Foil Containers for heated food 5. Water 6. Juice boxes 7. An extra cooler with ice 8. Beer 9. plastic roll for the tables with duct tape Greg
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wtgxi
16 years ago
Ben, Rebecca, Maxwell and I will be coming. Rebecca is going to be 4 and Maxwell just turn 1.

Thanks

Wendy
pumpkinhead1961
16 years ago
I'll be there. Cecilia, I have a few questions. If you could, please e-mail me sometime before monday. My e-mail is....DrJohn43@hotmail.com.
Thanks,
John
annebert
16 years ago
I am! I am! Got probably 10 varieties (though I canned 7 quarts of tomatoes and 6 pts of sauce today) to bring. I've been trying to interest friends, but don't think I have any takers this year. Found a Growler under the counter, so I'll bring some microbrew. Not sure whether I'll bring pesto or brownies.
tomatoes4ever
16 years ago
I am definately still coming. I've been looking forward to this for forever! I'll probably bring a pie(hint, hint, - it would be nice if someone else brought vanilla ice cream.

Unfortunately, I don't know if I'll have any tomatoes to bring. I'm praying for one or two cherokee purple that look like they are starting to ripen. I also have a mutant Roma VFN that I just picked today. I hope it stays fresh till next Saturday, it's funny.

The way the timing is working out for my tomatoes, I just picked a whole bunch a week ago(and had to make sauce today or risk losing them). None of my other tomatoes look even close to being ripe. In fact I'm praying they ripen before the weather turns cold. Does anyone know when the end of the growing season is in Vienna VA?
cecilia_md7a
Original Author
16 years ago
Tomatoes4ever, my sister-in-law, who lives on the Carroll/Frederick county border in Maryland, is experiencing the same problem as you - she has tons of big beautiful GREEN tomatoes that will probably not be ripe in time for MAGTAG. I'm having the opposite problem - all mine have pretty much either succumbed to blight or the drought.

If your tomatoes don't ripen before the weather turns cold, you can pick them and put them in a paper bag to ripen, or you can pull up the whole vine and hang it upside-down in a dry, dark space (like a shed). I have had tomatoes ripening for Thanksgiving that were almost as tasty as those that ripined on the vine.
tomatobob_va7
16 years ago
Cecilia, Claudia and I will be there again this year. She's making her new "Man-Catcher Brownies" (they catch women, too), and I'm making rosemary-scented bread. We'll bring what tomatoes we can, but our plants are on their last legs. I'll see if I have some homebrew to bring, too. Robert
pumpkinhead1961
16 years ago
If anybody who's coming has a decent boom box with a CD player, could you arrange to bring it?? If so, I'll burn some music onto CDs to play at MAGTAG. (I'll keep it light and maybe a little humorous...no heavy metal, rap, etc). If you can, please let me know.

My green zebras and Aunt ruby's german green probably won't be ripe in time, but I have an assortment of cherry toms I'll be bringing:
Jaune Flamme
Green Grape
Yellow Cherry (which is more orange than yellow)
Isis Candy
Chocolate Cherry
Yellow and Red Pear (mostly yellow)
Yellow and Red Currant (again, mostly yellow)

I'm going to make a couple of dishes using fresh tomatoes, but I'll be getting them from the farmer's market (not sure what varieties they are, but they're still very good).
gflynn
16 years ago
I will be there with the family early and then they will leave me and go off to see their cousin. My officemate may come because I gave him (and everyone else) plants in the spring and he has been very excited about the results.

I had flush of tomatoes last week but I am wondering what will happen this week. These are ones I should definitely have and some other I may be able to get from friends that are growing my plants.

Mine:
Black Cherry
Sungold
Marylin's Cherry
Earl's Faux
Dr. Lyle
Sophie's Choice
Kit's Find (maybe)

I may be able to get:
Orange One
Vesha
Taxi

Some that didn't go well this year were:
Cherokee Green
Yellow Cookie
Prue

They must have been affected by salt in the soil due to the fact they they were close to the road.

anyway,

See yall there!
Greg
cecilia_md7a
Original Author
16 years ago
Does anybody have a CD boombox or other CD player they could bring along? John (pumpkinhead1961) has kindly offered to burn a mix of all kinds of music to play at the fest, but we don't have anything to play it on! (I do have a long extension cord, though.)
gflynn
16 years ago
I have one I can bring. I actually brought one last year but we really didn't use it.
trudi_d
16 years ago
We're bringing down these toms:

Cambells 1327
Raad Red
La Rossa
Tiger Like
Brown Berry
Red Currant
Blondekopfchen

We've got the sharpies and plastic plates, and we're bringing a chocolate rum cake.

T
Newt
16 years ago
Hope it's not too late to say my hubby and I would like to attend. We used to go to the plant swaps but haven't attended in quite a while. I read this post this afternoon and ran to the store for the ingredients for a pasta salad, with tomatoes of course, and we'll bring that along. If there is anything else needed we would be happy to bring it along too.

Newt
gflynn
16 years ago
Newt,

Please come! This is an open event and all are invited. Let me add some directions if anyone doesn't know how to get there.

Directions to MAGTAG

From anywhere:

I-695 to Exit 9 - Hollins Ferry Road East.

Drive one mille and make a Right on Daisy Avenue

Drive 1/4 mille and make a Right on Annapolis Road

Drive Â½ mile and make a Left on Georgia Avenue

park is at end of road

You will see signs directing you were to go butÂ. you will make a left onto the park road to get to the pavilion

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