Last night was opening night for AppalSeeds 2009, with 53 Bourbon County folks in attendance. Participants took home 299 packets of tomato, pepper and eggplant seed and transplanted over 80 Stupice tomato seedlings.It was a wonderful turnout and a gracious audience....and the folks there are always so warm and enthusiastic. In addition, there's always someone who brings seeds to share with me! This year one of our regular participants brought a beautiful pint jar of Goose heirloom pole beans...
The tomato you see here is a sample of Rebecca Sebastian's Bull Bag tomato, which was grown from a gift of seeds from Mrs. Sebastian at the Bourbon County Program in 2007. Mrs. Sebastian has grown her father's special variety of large, sweet tomato for many years, and it was a wonderful gift. This particular tomato was nearly 5.5" across when sliced, and weighed 26 ounces (over 1.5 pounds). The tomato has a solid high-quality flesh, very sweet, and holds up beautifully when canned. We had our own Bull Bag Bacon-Tomato Soup this week when the temperatures dropped below 10 degrees.
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