Post by canadamike on Jul 23, 2009 1:06:19 GMT -5
Last winter, my dear friends Grunt and Grungy sent me a wonderful gift. Seeds of about 600 or so tomato cultivars.
We shared many laughs together about how poisoned a gift it was: the minute I got them, I called my love ( Grungy) to bitch her like crazy. She knew I would be stuck with sharing them and distribute them, We shared a lot of laughs about that poisoned gift.
To those of you for whom such an amont of seeds would be wonderful, we have to explain to you that when you have access to genebanks nd networks, if you are sincere in your desire to share and promote diversity, seeds become a responsability, a duty, and comes a time when too much is too much.
Val and Dan are there, so am I, and many others here like Alan. Comes a time when enough is enough.
Dan and Val know this. So they knew they were being mischevious little devils when they sent them. And they love me and I love them.
But what these mischevious lil' great friends of mine did not know is that I brought these seeds to the region's 2 largest greenhouse growers of garden plants ( nurseries I think you say in english...anyway, the folks selling plants in spring)
Given the fact I write a column in the regioanal paper, both these nurseries made record sales and had people asking for the ''tomatoes from the newspaper guy''.
One of them, seeing the success of heirloom sales, a producer strugling to fight the grocery stores and the Walmart of this world stealing his livelihood away from him, even took all the old heirlooms from Val and Dan from the ''12 plants for 4$'' styrofoam containers and put them in single pots, sold them for 7$ a plant. They got sold out. The last customer came and bought eveything,all what was left from the ''newspaper guy plants'', and she cooked him a deal at 5$ per plant.
Quite far away from 4$ for twelve plants.
None of it would have happened without 2 mischevious wonderful angels, Dan and Grungy.
Now, they are asking for more for next year and considering getting away from ususa hybrids. The
We shared many laughs together about how poisoned a gift it was: the minute I got them, I called my love ( Grungy) to bitch her like crazy. She knew I would be stuck with sharing them and distribute them, We shared a lot of laughs about that poisoned gift.
To those of you for whom such an amont of seeds would be wonderful, we have to explain to you that when you have access to genebanks nd networks, if you are sincere in your desire to share and promote diversity, seeds become a responsability, a duty, and comes a time when too much is too much.
Val and Dan are there, so am I, and many others here like Alan. Comes a time when enough is enough.
Dan and Val know this. So they knew they were being mischevious little devils when they sent them. And they love me and I love them.
But what these mischevious lil' great friends of mine did not know is that I brought these seeds to the region's 2 largest greenhouse growers of garden plants ( nurseries I think you say in english...anyway, the folks selling plants in spring)
Given the fact I write a column in the regioanal paper, both these nurseries made record sales and had people asking for the ''tomatoes from the newspaper guy''.
One of them, seeing the success of heirloom sales, a producer strugling to fight the grocery stores and the Walmart of this world stealing his livelihood away from him, even took all the old heirlooms from Val and Dan from the ''12 plants for 4$'' styrofoam containers and put them in single pots, sold them for 7$ a plant. They got sold out. The last customer came and bought eveything,all what was left from the ''newspaper guy plants'', and she cooked him a deal at 5$ per plant.
Quite far away from 4$ for twelve plants.
None of it would have happened without 2 mischevious wonderful angels, Dan and Grungy.
Now, they are asking for more for next year and considering getting away from ususa hybrids. The