I am desperatly looking for sun gold cherry and snow white cherry tomato and lipstick pepper and a frying pepper plants..if anyone had these for trade please email me. I will do a nice trade for these. I want plant though not seeds.

I would like to have some tomato seeds but I don't have SunGold (F1). You may have a hard time finding them for trade. Since they are hybrid you cannot save seeds from them. Most people just keep the extras for next year because the seeds will be good for several years. www.wintersown.org has a variety of seeds available. A lot of them are very desirable varieties. The selection changes frequently and she does not always have SunGold. Most are free for the first 6 kinds but since the SunGold is a hybrid you have to make at least a $5.00 donation to get them. With the donation you can get a total of 10 varieties. Do a Google search for tomato seed sources. A lot of places have economical seeds but no minimum order. Be sure to check shipping cost. Some companies charge an arm and a leg! Margaret

You can save Beam's Yellow Pear. It's is extremely vigorous, productive and disease/pest resistant even in the worst conditions. Unfortunately, the taste is so "mild" it is almost tasteless and it has a tendancy to elbow into the other tomatoes' space. (Think Little Shop of Horrors.) I don't think it's worth planting unless maybe to entice children with their pretty yellow color, or in spots where tomatoes are really hard to grow. I *swear* this is the last year I will plant it.

Hi Kristi, This is our first official year at the farmer's markets... we go to two... small towns. We have grown everything using organic methods, no chemicals, etc. Our tomatoes are the first on the market. We are selling our Sweet Baby Girl Cherry Tomatoes for $3.00/pint which we weigh out (for ourselves to be consistent... not officially) to be approximately 1# each. We will hold that price for "Matt's Wild's" & Grape Tomatoes. We use the grocery as a gauge & go a bit higher. Our standard size tomatoes are selling for $3.00/quart box which is approximately 1# as well. We usually harvest the day/evening before market & wash only if necessary because of mud or dirt. Our tomatoes are staked & fairly clean. We use green strawberry quart size boxes & when they sell we put them in a baggie with a twist tie & keep our boxes. We've been leaving them in the house covered with a towel to keep fruit flies from 'nibbling' during the night. It seems that I read somewhere that refrigeration is not recommended for tomatoes. As far as other vendors selling for less, our policy is to do our research, set our price & stick with it. We let people know when they are looking at our table that everything is freshly picked, locally grown by us (not bought in from somewhere else) & that we don't use chemicals. We've found that most people appreciate knowing those things & are willing to pay a fair price for our products. We struggled alot at the beginning of the season, but when we consider how much work we put in to grow, weed, harvest, clean, package, etc & then look at the grocery prices knowing most of the produce has travelled many miles, been treated with chemicals or gassed, we realize we are offering a terrific product at a very fair price! May you be blessed & encouraged in all you do! Sally ;o)