Numbers Game
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 be able to have all three is a really beautiful thing. 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 and 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 interesting, and I am not attached to any particular idea. I am viewing it as creative work, as searching and sifting. Don’t settle for a local high point; use your imagination, imagine the best possible (for you) (I created this collage mostly with my own photos, and borrowed a few elements from MerakiSeeds and TomatoFifou).