Expensive tomatoes?

Spook · May 14, 2009

Stopped by the garden center at wally world yesterday. Tomato plants were 3.50 for small ones, $5@ for 12 inchers.

Uncle Ernie · May 14, 2009

Seeing as those plants will never grow $5 worth of tomatos I would agree. If you factor in labor, tools, land costs and fertilizer you cannot grow a garden at a profit.
We do it for the joy of Gods Miracle.

Rootsy · May 14, 2009

(reply to post at 04:39:52 05/14/09)

Round here they're marketed under the name Bonnie... Single plant in a pot with an outrageous price... See em all over.. Walmart, Meijer, TSC, Family Farm & Home... All of the grocery stores...

I roll my own and what i don't I get from the local green house where seedlings are still 25 cents each...

El Toro · May 14, 2009

I've been growing my own pepper and tomato plants.
I have a mini-green house where I let them grow
until transplanting them to the garden. Here's some of the tomatoes from 2008. Hal

fregienewbee · May 14, 2009

I enjoy our garden too. This year I'm making a pact to keep up--or better yet get ahead--of the weeds. They completely took over last year.

I'm hoping to set out tomatoes, jalapenos, broccolli and cauliflowerplusplant beans, sweet corn, squash zuccini, and watermellons. Also basil and a couple other herbs. I get most of my plants from my BIL's greenhouse.

Larry in Michigan

GeneMO · May 14, 2009

Around here we have good ole boys (and gals) that pull their pickup truck off to the side and sell all sorts of produce all summer long. Way cheaper than I can grow it.

If you enjoy gardening and working with the veggies, then it is a labor of love and you are not doing it for the money.

Myself, I would rather fish, hunt, reload ammo, plant food plots, tinker with my hunting equipment, fix old tractors, go flying with a friend, set on the deck at the cabin and drink a cold one, mow grass and weed eat, fly my R/C planes, ride the ATV, play with the grandbaby, and a few other things.

So I didn't even plow up the garden for about the 4th year now.

I used to plant a big garden. Then work would call me off to Arkansas or Oklahoma. I would get back and the sweet corn would be too hard. I might get a few messes, but I would call the neighbors and tell them to help themselves while I was gone. Got tired of doing all the work to feed the neighbors.

I'll buy it from Bubba on main street!

Have fun, Gene

El Toro · May 14, 2009

I have my tomatoes in wire cages made from heavy reinforcement wire and I mulch them heavily with
shredded paper, grass clippings and old wet straw
to keep down the weeds. When the growing season is over I plow it under. Hal

Goose · May 14, 2009

My wife says she'd rather mow then hoe. Her garden is the north side of the courthouse square Saturday morning. (Farmer's market.)

As far tomatoes go, they're one of the few ways I take after my father. He would drink tomato juice by the gallon, by he wouldn't have eaten a whole tomato, raw or cooked, if someone held a gun to his head.

Traditional Farmer · May 14, 2009

If you can't grow $5 worth of tomatoes on a plant you better give up gardening

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