Kat, where can those planters be bought and do you plant your own seed? Tomatoes here in Florida are very exspensive and are from other countries. They are very hard and not very good. Lois -----Original Message----- From: Kat Fulcher Sent: Friday, May 1, 2009 10:41 AM To: vafloyd Subject: [VAFLOYD] not genealogy--Tomatoes This is probably a good year to consider growing your own tomatoes! Just saw a report on the news that Florida growers (who supply a huge portion of US tomatoes) are literally plowing under their fields and not putting in a crop this year because there is a big supply and not enough demand, so they are not making enough money. Some farmers are simply getting out of the tomato business all together. At the moment, tomatoes are very plentiful and cheap, but that will not last long as new crops don't make it to the market. Of course, there will always be local growers and local farmer's markets should have them, but they may get more pricey at the regular grocery stores late in the year. Still highly recommending the "Topsy Turvey" planters. I'm just about ready to put mine out this year and I know my friends from further south already have theirs up!! Those things REALLY work and are absolutely fool-proof, especially for people like me who are NOT farmers and generally can't grow anything. I plan to have 7 planters up this year, with tomatoes, cukes, and peppers. We just experimented with our planters last year, because we moved to VA so late and didn't think we'd have time to actually get eatable tomatoes. We didn't put our plants in until the first week in July. Well, we definitely DID eat some tomatoes before the first frost. Those plants grew like crazy! Obviously, we didn't get anything like the crops you see in the ads--because we planted so late--but I am hoping for a big harvest this season! I am a tomato lover and wouldn't want to have to go hunting for some later this year if the supplies get scarce. I'm going to grow my own! Kat To contact Listowner: Rena Worthen [email protected] View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message