Seeing What’s Out There

These are some of the tomatoes you can grow today: they are beautiful not only visually…there is a kind of beauty in a plant that grows well, and in food that tastes fantastic; so to have all three is especially beautiful!

The guiding questions to this presentation are:

How did they get there from tomato’s pea sized red ancestor?

What else might be possible?

In trying new varieties, I estimate that 1 in 20 will be unusually interesting, vigorous or flavorful, so I try many!

The same for creating new varieties from crosses, I am estimating that 1 in 20 more or less might be special, and I am not attached to any particular idea. I am viewing it as creative work, as searching and sifting.

I urge myself: “Don’t settle for a local high point; use your imagination, imagine the best possible (for you)”