The
first fruits for this seaon's trials are ripe! Time to think about
filing reports, so future growers can know what tastes and grows
good! Gang members who need report forms will find them at the ITG
Potting Shed.
Larry Watson's Great Expectations
July
27, 1999
ITG member, mechanical engineer, and tomato grower
extraordinaire, Larry Watson of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania knew he had a
winning variety in ITT #17 when his vines had produced these giants by
mid-Summer. The impatient wait-and-watch begins for the first fruits to
ripen, and this mammoth cluster is a harbinger of what is to come . . .
.
August
10, 1999
Which takes longer:
the water to come to the boil in
the pot you've got on the stove waiting for the just shucked corn or
the first of the main season's
tomatoes to ripen?
Especially when the gardener has
sweated out a hailstorm that threatened his "Great Expectations"
But a few days away from harvest,
Larry's #17s look hale and hearty and HUGE!
The
first fruits for this seaon's trials are ripe! Time to think about
filing reports, so future growers can know what tastes and grows
good! Gang members who need report forms will find them at the ITG
Potting Shed. 
