Link to article and pictures! Latest Outreach NC magazine...my garden!

[NRaleighLiberal]

Article is here - page 40 - http://www.outreachnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Aug2013OutreachNC.pdf

http://www.outreachnc.com/photo-gallery/?album=NCTomatoManRaleighAugust2013

Shows the chaotic nature (and mess!) of my rapidly going out of control gardening efforts! (I didn't know this was out yet - my wife saw the magazine at an assisted living place she goes to providing company to a friend's mom - she came home and said "you are in a magazine I just read"!)

[Melissa G]

1. Congrats!! Beautiful!!

My spouse and daughter just got back from Asheville. I can't wait to visit Raleigh!
Looks lush there! Asheville pics were gorgeous and it looks like so is your garden!

[Scuba]

2. Good on ya!

[libodem]

3. Very Awesome

Totally impressive!

Loved it.

[jtuck004]

4. Are those few in the middle and at the bottom your driveway plants?

Great looking plants. Nice work, and lots of it!

[femmocrat]

5. Congratulations!

Your garden almost looks like a nursery. Everything is so lush!

[Curmudgeoness]

6. Glad that you are getting recognition

that you deserve. You have worked very hard and made significant progress with tomatoes, and people should know that.

I am surprised that you didn't even know that this article was coming out. Surprise, surprise!

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. I knew they interviewed me, but don't really keep track of when they come out

(and I don't enjoy reading articles about me either...just one of those odd things!).

I do what I do because I love it - and try to keep out of the surprising nastiness of gardening - this or that camp, envy, stealing info, misinfo, etc - it is saddening to see some of what goes on...makes one a bit disillusioned.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. Now I am surprised.

I would never expect controversy and treachery in gardening circles. But I suppose that it isn't immune. Yes, it is sad.

You just keep doing what you are doing, and to hell with the critics.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. I call it the collision of truth with commerce ($$) -

Those of us who are sticklers for accuracy, the carrying on of the real histories of varieties, etc end up running hard into those who want to or need to make money at it - so they fabricate stories for varieties to make them stand out - then of course you have two histories going forward, and the truth ends up as a potential casualty. That's why the book I just wrote - and ones to come - are important to me - telling the stories of varieties and the families and how they were developed, passed on, and all.

so in a way, what happens in gardening isn't much different than what happens in politics, or any other pursuit (my wife tells me quilting/fabric arts are just as bad!).

[beac]

10. Bravo!

Does me good to see such a lush garden. The only thing I have been growing lately are piles of cardboard and disputes with the moving company.