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Besq wrote:

> It is, when I put the effort into it.  I'm as aggravated about tomatoes as I
> am about popcorn.  I wonder how many people of today remember what tomatoes
> are supposed to taste like.  Not many if they accept those red things that
> are passed off as tomatoes.  I'm tempted to cut into the parking area and
> enlarge my garden so I can grow all the things I love.  I have to find space
> to put some soil I got from Rocky Ford so I can grow my own Rocky Form
> melons.  The secret is the soil, that grey brown adobe looking stuff that
> doesn't look like it would even grow a weed produces those heavenly melons.

Secret is it holds water below, yet drains it from the surface.

Less rot above due to the sandy soil overburden, then the more clayey 
stuff below acts like a canteen while the top layer dries put and the 
sun beats down.

It's not unlike the reason Georgia has such great cotton and peanuts.

> I'm trying to get them interested in making melon wine to keep the farms
> going.  

That is a very cool idea.

> They need an industry down there or agri-biz will buy them all out
> and the melons will also be a thing of the past.  The "scientists" will
> probably genetically cross the melons with eels.  Ugh!
> If everyone would rebel by growing their own, well, at least tomatoes in
> buckets, maybe the stores would catch on and offer us what we want.  Thanks
> again!

You have both a purpose and the passion, that equals success.

Time to relegate the wax-markets to a few less shiny overly colored 
products, recall food looks less appetizing that it tastes.