tomato types

Bama mater · October 31, 2010

Wordwiz, You will also need alot of help (Planting, Stringing, Picking, Distributing). I've sold maters for the past 2 seasons and I grow mostly heirlooms and OP maters, but I only grow approx 500 plants and do all the work myself and still work a 40hr a week job. When I sell at the local farmers market I'm the only one with heirlooms everybody else has tons of red tomatos and sell for about $1 a lb. I get $3 a lb for the hierlooms and also sell to several local Chefs. I just think it would be tough to compete with the reg red tomato market unless you go big (over 10,000 plants) and then that would be your only job.

October 31, 2010	#17
Bama mater Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Huntsville, AL Posts: 269	Wordwiz, You will also need alot of help (Planting, Stringing, Picking, Distributing). I've sold maters for the past 2 seasons and I grow mostly heirlooms and OP maters, but I only grow approx 500 plants and do all the work myself and still work a 40hr a week job. When I sell at the local farmers market I'm the only one with heirlooms everybody else has tons of red tomatos and sell for about $1 a lb. I get $3 a lb for the hierlooms and also sell to several local Chefs. I just think it would be tough to compete with the reg red tomato market unless you go big (over 10,000 plants) and then that would be your only job.