We had another contest for my newsletter subscribers; to enter, people had to leave a comment on my Harvest Tuesday post of December 18. I asked folks to tell me what they were doing in their garden right now. As you can see, we had a lot of interesting tasks outlined and many of you peeps were harvesting a nice array of your own winter veggies. Here's what a lucky subscriber won:
This is a beautiful heirloom tomato wall poster generously donated by Gary Ibsen of TomatoFest.com. He is also throwing in 3 packets of his heirloom tomato seeds for the winner. I chose the winner at random, after jotting down everyone's email address and stirring them around in a box. Congrats go out to Cheri from Tracy, California. If you'd like to sign up for our free newsletter and get a chance at many more seeds, posters, books, class tuitions, etc., click here.
TomatoFest has 600 different kinds of heirloom tomato seeds on their site, and right now they have put on sale 70 of their most popular varieties for only $2.00 a pack until January 20th. So if you are in the market for tomato seeds, go on over and take a look. I love Gary and Dagma, the husband and wife team who run TomatoFest. Their annual tomato festival is my favorite event of the year, and it benefits many children's charities. They work very hard to preserve old heritage varieties of tomatoes, and I've personally seen them both laboring in a gigantic tomato field, sweating buckets in 90+ degree heat, harvesting tomatoes for seeds. They are the real deal.
Thank you, Gary and Dagma, for supporting the cause of righteous tomatoes, and for supporting me!
Cynthia, I always look forward to receiving your wonderful and creative Newsletter. Would that I were younger(being 74) I would love an opportunity of serving as apprentice for you. Your Newsletter arrives following a very cold/ice and snow winter here in Kentucky. Love Apple Farm showcases some of the Best Tomatoes to be grown with lots of other good things for which you should be proud! Keep up the good work and Happy Gardening to all!
Posted by: Gary Millwood | March 28, 2010 at 05:13 PM
Jane: That's not a poster, those are just individual pics of my tomatoes I posted on a piece of posterboard in the sales area. Perhaps I should consider making it a poster!
Posted by: Love Apple Farm | April 01, 2009 at 08:40 PM
Hi, What a wonderful experience it was to visit your farm...Thank you for a great afternoon... and lots of wonderful tomato plants to keep us occupied. Do You sell the large poster with each tomato and its description? How do I get it?
Posted by: jane ramirez | April 01, 2009 at 02:55 PM
Hi
How nice to see so much space dedicated to old varieties. I have grown tomatoes for 30 years and originally grew Harbinger, lovely taste but not what the supermarkets would sell because of varying sizes. Being more difficult to source and losing the seed I had taken (yes, I know!) I now grow Shirley. Very tasty but there was something about my Harbinger.
Posted by: Rodger | April 29, 2008 at 03:43 AM