Travis, you can mention any name you want to when giving your speech, mine included if you wish.

And you can also mention any message website you want to that you know and enjoy, when you give your speech, but you can't mention other message websites here at GW. It's the only message site I occasionally show up at that has that rule. I tried to clarify that two times with admin here, but got no response back, so dropped it. It used to be that if you did mention or link to another message site here you were banned.

Be sure to mention Tania's Tomato base as a source of great info about individual varieties, pictures of those varieties when available, and seed sources for those varieties as well, where available. She just updated it so that now she has pages for about 4,000 varieties. And that site should be of strong interest to anyone interested in tomatoes.

All to say that I've been overwhelmed with my seed offer elsewhere, now closed, and am working on that. And also delighted to be getting so many new to all varieties from here and there. Three from Macedonia, many from Russia, two from Solvenia. several from Serbia, one from Lithuania, and more. And yes, some from the US as well.

The first one from Russia was in Russian language and then I found out she lived in Clearwater, FL for 7 years and wrote and spoke English well, so we got that fixed ASAP. LOL

The reason why I read/post at several message sites is to help when I can, learn more from others, and on the way pick up some great new varieties from time to time.

Almost all of my tomato friends post at more than one message site and I think that's a good idea. Not only do they have different philosophies as to their missions, and different folks posting, although there's a lot of cross posting, but for retired folks like me who have the time it's a lot of fun.

And now to go to the back room and put up more seeds to send out. For this annual seed offer I'll be doing about 450-500 individual packs and the worst thing about it is that the Australian Tennis Open started today and I'm BIG tennis fan. Sigh.

Carolyn, who wishes you good luck with that talk; I know you'll do just fine.

Same here. No objections and I'm flattered too but there are others here with far more knowledge than me. Be sure to mention Carolyn's book and ditto on Tatiana's. And if your local county AG extension office has a Master Gardener's program give it a plug too. Good luck!

Dave

Yep, will do. I have already included aggie horticulture and cornell as basis knowledge in the outline. I truly appreciate this all. Carolyn, on the topic of tennis, I went to state twice and qualified all 3 years of high school(3a)in Texas, so we have that in common. Here's a list off the top of my head. People playing tennis when I was interested to the high: Stephan Edberg(jump serve)..Ivan Lendyl,Boris Becker,Jimmy Connors,John McEnroe(good guy),Pete Sampras,Andre Agassi(forehand),and nowadays,does anyone out there notice how much larger Federick's right arm is compared to his left? Amazing.

Take care,
Travis

Yup, I know them all, I mean as players but have seen Connors and McEnroe play when I was there. It was an exhibition match when I was in Denver.

That's Stefan Edberg and oh I miss him and all the other serve and volley players that used to be around. You look at the grass courts at Wimbledon and dead grass just around the baseline. Sad.

I watched a bit more tonight but when it got to 9PM Eastern when ESPN2 took over I was just too tired and needed to come back here to the computer to catch up.

So you think McEnroe was a good guy? His brother Pat, for sure, but John? Well we'll leave it here or some folks might object to tennis talk rather than tomato talk, but it is your thread. LOL

Carolyn

Well, if we pretend that the tennis ball is a tomato.....kidding,but thank you for the encouragement.

Take care,
Travis