Congrats!

congrats my old friend. you earned it.

Keep on Growing!

But the deer are already gathering and licking their chops at the mere thought of our ever growing tomatoes again.

Congratulations!

But trying to grow anything like tomatoes or salad greens is futile. And what the deer don’t get, the squirrels do. Squirrels plop down in the herb bins and much away. They love Italian parsley!

is the black swallowtail caterpillars, and I’m more than happy to share my small crop with them. The deer are no longer an adorable novelty. They are a nuisance, and it’s an overcrowding situation that’s unhealthy for them and aggravating for humans. They even ate our garlic!

is in constant circulation.

I once figured it out that the two good tomatoes I grew that one year, before surrendering them to bugs and assorted blight, cost me about $12 each. True, I enjoyed the daily care, feeding, weeding, spraying , and seeing them grow - but still.

Congratulations Craig.

"Epic Tomatoes" is one of my favorite gardening books, along with "Square Foot Gardening." I hope the NYT article (which I can't see behind the paywall) also mentioned your excellent work with dwarf tomatoes.

I can't even begin to imagine.

I tried growing tomatoes a couple of years ago, and was spectacularly unsuccessful. Quite discouraging, as there's nothing better than a vine-ripened tomato.

I grow Polish Linguisa and Olpaka tomatoes for sauces and salsa.
They do so well in our Zone 4.

That’s true love and homegrown tomatoes.

Guy Clark, Homegrown Tomatoes

(Some kind person post the live from Austin YouTube? Thanks!)

I grow really good tomatoes until late or early blight hits them.

Congrats!

I am very surprised once again.

A friend of ours that could grow a plant from a dry stick gave me a few heirloom tomato varieties. A few I didn't really care for - not that I didn't like them, they just weren't impressive - but a couple were absolutely delicious. Not big fruit producers though, so not commercially viable, except for a few boutique-type restaurants.

Congratulations and thank you for your beautiful book. Just thinking about buying tomato seeds when I saw this. Am pulling your book off the shelf now.

Congrats!

I still remember the taste of the Mexico Midgets you sent me.

Very cool!

They’re at their peak then and so delicious.

I wish I could grow my own but I lack the talent.

Congratulations!🍾

Every farmers market I go to where I have opportunity to talk to growers of tomatoes, I tell them of you
I rec to them your book.
I absolutely love you and your wife and your writing of "retirement" in North Carolina. Reads like heaven and then some!!

Oh yes, 7wo7rees mom and pop live in Pinehurst, NC.
Retirement on golf course did not work out quite as planned.......