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"Sam Bam" <sam@bam.slam> wrote in message
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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.

When you look at what's offered to us today and know what it tastes like, it
isn't so pretty.  A sunwarmed ripe red tomato with a little dust on it is
beautiful to me.
That strange soil at Rocky Ford has some kind of mineral and organic
composition that causes a cantaloupe to taste the way it should instead of
the bland things we've had all our lives.  The flavor is out of this world.
Its more than just a cantaloupe.
You've really got to watch them at Farmers' Market.  People will tell you've
they've got Rocky Ford melons even with "Texas" written all over the boxes.
I know one outfit at Farmers' Market that sells the real thing.  Some people
will plant the seed elsewhere thinking they'll have the flavor but the soil
won't do the job.  They'll still swear they're Rocky Fords.  I usually plan
a leisurely drive down to a market right in Rocky Ford and buy 'em
practically from the vine.
I can't wait 'til I plant some in that soil I've got, that will be a fun
experiment.