On Saturday I shivered my way through the first garden talk/workshop of the year, at West Point on the Eno. Imagine...talking about tomatoes on what felt like the coldest morning of the winter! I appreciated the attention of a similarly shivering audience (even more so...at least I got to stand up and walk around!). We discussed an awful lot about tomatoes - colors, flavors, sizes, shapes, many stories - and I hope it inspired people to grow something out of the ordinary. I also shared my method of seed starting, and encourage attendees with lingering (or new) questions to shoot me an email.
If I collect a quantity of questions (especially if I ended up overwhelming or confusing people a bit), I will do a future blog post collecting them all together. I look forward to my next talk at that venue, on Sunday April 14; at that session we will talk about tomato growing - support, trouble shooting, care and maintenance, into a bit on harvesting and seed saving. I should have plenty of interesting seedlings with me.
Over the past two weeks I also managed to get the 2013 Northern Hemisphere phase of our Dwarf Tomato project up and running, and distributed loads of seeds all over the country...and a few places elsewhere. So, my tasks at hand are now continuing on with the text part of my tomato book, my own garden planning, seedling sales planning and a few magazine articles and workshops. Not much happening at all, hey.....