The world’s most expensive tomatoes part 3
Here it is folks. The moment that you’ve all been waiting for. We are now ready to unveil the fruits of hard labor — literally the fruit (ok vegetable). This single point in time where money, sweat and hard work have culminated into this single event. Let me have a drum roll please! I’m pleased to present to you our first tomato.
OK, OK it’s rather underwhelming I admit, but it is the Summer Sweet Grape variety, so it’s supposed to be small. That plant just happened to produce fruit before the other two.
The good news is that from here on in we’re producing and the beauty of division starts to kick in so that we can begin to appreciate the true costs of organic gardening. But as a starting point, we’ve got roughly $100.00 invested in these things. So if you figure this tomatomidget weighs an ounce, you’ve got $100.00 divided by 1/16th of a pound or $1,600.00 per pound!! (Now I see why these plants are called “heirloom varieties.”)
Let’s hope the rest of the summer yields a bit more produce. At least the plants look like they might.
See you next time.
