PaPredHunter said:
My buddie gets stuff and it is not going very cheap $50 for a case of tomatoes and $5 a dozen for sweet corn that is not cheap.....At leola auction
Holy Hanna!
That is WAY OVER BOARD!!
My Buddy and I know what the prices are for Whole Sale Bushels of Tomatoes and when our corn is ready, we always sell it for $1.50 a Bakers Dozen to stores we sell to that resale and we then sell from his place or I take orders and we sell Bakers Dozens at $2.00 a Bakers Dozen to people....
5 Bucks a Dozen....Has to be Brain Dead New Jersians Bidding Against each other!
I've seen that done MANY Times while at Roots....they could get some of the Birds sold thru a Farmer or thru a Catalog....But they stand there and Bid against each other and Argue and Moan!
They have to be plain NUTS if they are paying 50 bucks for a case!
Since the little problem this year of the Blight, my Buddy is loosing almost all of his Tomatoes and mine are growing but not doing all that good because the deer LOVE to Snip the Tops off them and have stunted them pretty good....I'm not dealing with the Blight and we have our gardens only 400 yards apart.....My Buddy was talking yesturday about going together next year and Plowing up his Back Yard and planting JUST tomatoes in there and letting his Garden Rest and me just planting peppers, cucumbers, watermelons, cantalopes and pumpkins in my Garden and we would then split the tomotoes and sell what is extra....
my buddy said he would swap me peppers for tomatoes but that really doesn't seem like it is going to come about....I'm not going to get many tomatoes!
We were talking Yesturday about the Produce Auctions...we were thinking of trying to go in on some bushels of tomatoes for home made sauce and salsa.....
Guess if we can come up with a location other then root's we will check them out, but there is no way in this world we are going to pay 50 bucks for a case of tomatoes...
Don't those people THINK of how much less they would spend at a road side stand or from a farmer who just sells here and there to people who want some???
We know a guy who goes to a Produce Auction up near Selingsgrove along 11&15, but we have had some of those tomatoes last year and they tasted like CARDBOARD.....We want Farm Raised, Vine Rippened Tomatoes...not Green Picked, Gased to Ripen Hard as Bullets Crap!