Post by canadamike on Jul 23, 2009 1:20:53 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 and 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 it is more work than fun.
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 regional 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 great producer strugling financially 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 more and more away from usual hybrids. The VICTORIAN DWARF tomato is apparently amazing, so loaded with maters you do not see the plant, and all the others are doing well too.
My dear wonderful friends Val and Dan, I might ask you for more seeds of some cultivars next year. I do not sell them, I give them to them so our cause would florish. But they will grow they own seeds from now on, quite a revolution.
It works beautifully here, and I am now wondering how my life and projects would be without you.
Gosh, am I blessed to have had the privilege to know you.
You are in my heart in a way you can't even start to contemplate.
Blessed is the man who met you on his journey through life.
I love you so dearly my friends, you are now making my little neck of the woods a better place, oh you lil' mischevious angels.
Michel
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 and 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 it is more work than fun.
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 regional 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 great producer strugling financially 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 more and more away from usual hybrids. The VICTORIAN DWARF tomato is apparently amazing, so loaded with maters you do not see the plant, and all the others are doing well too.
My dear wonderful friends Val and Dan, I might ask you for more seeds of some cultivars next year. I do not sell them, I give them to them so our cause would florish. But they will grow they own seeds from now on, quite a revolution.
It works beautifully here, and I am now wondering how my life and projects would be without you.
Gosh, am I blessed to have had the privilege to know you.
You are in my heart in a way you can't even start to contemplate.
Blessed is the man who met you on his journey through life.
I love you so dearly my friends, you are now making my little neck of the woods a better place, oh you lil' mischevious angels.
Michel
