Guest guest Posted July 2, 2003 Report Share Posted July 2, 2003 ,Mike That would be nice of you, but it is a little late in the year. And I haven't got the box yet.My daughter lives in Bownsvalley south of Crawfordsvile, south of Lafayette.which is sothwest of Logansport. But heck you knew all that except Brownsvalley. We used to make yearly trips to C'ville to see daughter and would pack up a bushel or so of half ripe tomatoes and head home.The Amish grows a lot of tomatoes and are very good at it. I can remember in fall when tomatoes come on,(whats for breakfast) grab a salt shaker and go to the garden and get a big tomato fresh with dew and there was nothing better. Except the little yellow tommy toes. Some of you might know about them. But they were off limits until Mom made tomato perserves. My father and a neighbor used to grow and haul tomatoes to Ladoga canning factory in a model T truck. This was back in early 1930's may be 29 I was just a tot and Mom and I would get off at grandma's house till he returned. No floor boards in truck. I think that is why I remember it so well.I watched to road go by under my feet. Dad also worked at a small canning plant in Crawfordsville about the same time. But both are long gone. His job was to make ketchup. " He would not eat ketchup " nuff said.That was about seventy years ago.I am hugging heck out of 77 I have rattled off enough about old times, and thanks for the offer. I will have my daughter UPS some almost ripe ones down when they are plentyful. Regards and best wishes Byron and In FL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 3, 2003 Report Share Posted July 3, 2003 Byron and , I don't know which of you wrote this, but this is something you should tape or videotape or just write down for all the generations who follow you. This type of experience is something that is hard to believe today. I grew up without indoor plumbing. Others in our small IN town had it, some did not. I was 18 before I was able to take a shower daily. This was at Purdue University, my freshman year, Autumn of 1966. I did not mention the yellow tomatoes because most people would not know what I was talking about. They are very good and have less acid in them. My uncle, Harold Gray, discovered a new type of tomato by using scientific gardening methods sometime in the early '70's. There was a very nice write up on him in the local paper, which sold the story to a gardening magazine that was sold nationally. He was our family celebrity for a while. Now, watermelons and " muskmelons " (cantaloupes) were my grandfather Stuart's speciality. (Mom's dad). He could really grow them in the sand that surrounds my home area, especially the west and southwest parts. I remember helping him get " hot beds " made and started the plants in the beds with horse manure as the fertilizer. These melons were so good, people still came to his house for three or four years after he died to get some. He sold many of them to local grocery stores and made enough money to live through the winter. I helped to harvest these, also, and can remember " dropping " some big ones to share the hearts with my friends, who were also helping. I have a lot of stories about this stuff and maybe I should just sit in front of a video camera and record some of my family's early experiences. What we did before TV and video games.........!!! My home town was so small that our major form of enternmaint was watching each other grow up. The older we got, the more fun it was. And I'm only 55. Thanks for sharing the memories and your daughter only lives about one and one half hours away, Mike cbccarter119 wrote: >,Mike > >That would be nice of you, but it is a little late in the year. And I >haven't got the box yet.My daughter lives in Bownsvalley south of >Crawfordsvile, south of Lafayette.which is sothwest of Logansport. >But heck >you knew all that except Brownsvalley. >We used to make yearly trips to C'ville to see daughter and would >pack up a >bushel or so of half ripe tomatoes and head home.The Amish grows a >lot of >tomatoes and are very good at it. I can remember in fall when >tomatoes come >on,(whats for breakfast) grab a salt shaker and go to the garden and >get a >big tomato fresh with dew and there was nothing better. Except the >little >yellow tommy toes. Some of you might know about them. But they were >off >limits until Mom made tomato perserves. >My father and a neighbor used to grow and haul tomatoes to Ladoga >canning >factory in a model T truck. This was back in early 1930's may be 29 >I was >just a tot and Mom and I would get off at grandma's house till he >returned. >No floor boards in truck. I think that is why I remember it so well.I >watched to road go by under my feet. >Dad also worked at a small canning plant in Crawfordsville about the >same >time. But both are long gone. His job was to make ketchup. " He >would not >eat ketchup " nuff said.That was about seventy years ago.I am >hugging heck >out of 77 >I have rattled off enough about old times, and thanks for the offer. >I will >have my daughter UPS some almost ripe ones down when they are >plentyful. >Regards and best wishes Byron and In FL > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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