Tomatoes in Oklahoma: Part I, Varieties/Types
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Comments (27)I sent out an email to all participants. If you did not received an email from me and requested to participate, Please send me another email. thanks everyone..... this will be fun gary...See MoreHeirloom Tomato Plant Sources in Oklahoma
Comments (6)Hi Dale!!!! How are you? Long time no see. I hope the business is doing great. I always was a horrible typist, but I did start out as a 'stenographer' at General Dynamics in the earliest 1980s. Even though they hired me for my shorthand (140 words per minute, I'm proud to say), I mostly typed and this was back when we had to type on IBM Selectric typewriters and and then had to learn to type on computers (called word processors at the time) and I hated them. LOL In the mid-1980s we had to start using a brand new (in the business world) process called 'Electronic Mail' on our brand new computerized word processors and I didn't like it either and could not see its' worth, which just goes to show that I am not good at spotting trends! So, I guess I've been typing a long time but never especially liked it...and didn't stay a stenographer long either, promoting out of secretarial work and into first a personnel administrative job and then later an accounting job before I quit my job in the early 1990s to do the whole stay-at-home-mom thing. I then spent the rest of the 1990s and even the earliest 2000s avoiding computers because I had my fill of them at work all those years. After we moved to a fairly remote, rural area ihere in Oklahoma in the late 1990s, I eventually had to learn to like my computer and communicate on it in order to stay in touch with what was going on in the real world. Now, of course, I cannot imagine my life without electronic communication. I do always write long threads, though, and that's just me trying to be thorough and complete and cover all the bases. Hope you're well and looking forward to another great garden year. Dawn...See MoreThese Are The Tomato Varieties I Planted
Comments (33)Sheri, Gary is a professional horticulturalist/farmer. He owns and operates Duck Creek Farms. He is a long-time member of this forum and posts here during the off-season, but generally not during the growing season because he is too busy. If you are familiar with the Tulsa-area business, "The Tomatoman", started by the late, great Tomatoman Darrell Merrell, Gary grew heirloom tomato plants for DM to sell for many years. Sometime after DM's death, Gary began selling his plants directly to the public at various festivals and at the Cherry Street Farmer's Market, and Lisa Merrell renamed her dad's business and now operates it as "The Tomatoman's Daughter". I'll link Gary's website below. His schedule showing when and where he sells plants is on his website, and he does sell fall tomato transplants for a few weeks in the summer. He also sells sweet potato slips, which are the only plants he ships, and he has an amazing and wonderful variety of heirloom sweet potatoes available. Some of our forum members are trialing a bunch of heirloom tomatoes for him this year so he can receive feedback on how they grow in different areas and how they taste. Once you're on Gary's website, click on his 2011 Tomato Plant/Herb list to see what he's selling this year. His show and farmer's market schedule is at the end of his list of varieties. As for selling your own produce, if you're selling it from a table in your yard in an incorporated area out in a county, you likely don't have any rules or regulations to follow. If selling in town within the city limits, you'd have to comply with whatever city codes that city has regarding sales. Some cities require you have a license or permit, others don't. With each individual farmer's market, you have to contact them and get from them their list of requirements. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Duck Creek Farms...See MoreAnother Dawn bump
Comments (2)I haven't been here in ages, and just learned of Dawn's passing. So very sad. Thank you, Rick, for passing on her knowledge and the sound of her voice....See MoreMacmex
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