865
That is the total number of tomato plants we've started in the new greenhouse. I just did inventory of each variety and I have 18 plants with no name tag to identify them. We are heavy on the purple color category, with green and white also making a strong showing. Yes, there are white tomatoes, and they are quite pretty. I haven't ever tasted one, as this is our first year growing those varieties.
Let me leave you with a picture of what I am now calling "the obligatory tomato". Michael Pollan, if you're out there reading my blog, you have to attribute this nameage to me. This particular tomato came on a chicken sandwich from Hardee's (long story) but it could be any tomato, on any sandwich, sliced and served in any restaurant in America, especially between November and May.
It is the tomato that the chain restaurants all over the country are obliged to serve year 'round, irrespective of season and distance from tomato-growing locales.
It is tasteless, pale, pasty in your mouth. It has no value whatsoever, except to keep Big Ag in business and Big Immigration continuing to bring in illegals to pick it, pack it, and ship it.
It is the tomato I will not eat and I refuse to buy.
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