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Thread #126160   Message #2931039
Posted By: Bettynh
19-Jun-10 - 10:01 AM
Thread Name: BS: Gardening 2010
Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
Two of our local farms make good money growing heirloom tomatoes for the Boston market (Boston is only an hour away from here if you drive in the middle of the night and avoid traffic). They're the last tomatoes to produce, and there are never very many of them. We won't see them till August, even when we're two weeks ahead of ourselves this year. The stands will be selling multicolored cherry tomatoes by early July, however, and they'll have vast quantities. I took the hint and grow a couple cherry tomatoes for myself and buy the heirlooms. My favorite heirloom is yellow Brandywine but most of the 30 or so vairieties are wonderful. The strawberry pick-your-own fields are in full production. Cherries and raspberries are starting. Soon they'll add the yellow and black raspberries and blueberries.