DUer in the NYT? DUer in the NYT!

[JHB]

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(on edit: h/t to Celerity in reply #7 for the non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/Sotjd)

The story is from last month, so maybe I missed it back then, but it popped up in my twitter feed and I recognized a name (and the subject matter made a "same name, different guy" situation highly unlikely), our own NewHendoLib.

Link to tweet

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/realestate/tomato-growing-tips.html

Are Your Tomatoes ‘Epic’? If Not, Here’s What You Should Be Doing
Tomato experts Craig LeHoullier and Joe Lamp’l have some advice for you.
By Margaret Roach
Feb. 16, 2022

“We are the luckiest tomato growers in all of history,” proclaimed Craig LeHoullier as he thumbed with dramatic effect through the Seed Savers Exchange yearbook, a hefty index of nearly 12,000 heirloom varieties of the beloved Solanum lycopersicum.

Choosing among such a staggering selection of tomatoes, plus hundreds of modern hybrids not included in that print version of the yearbook, is the first step toward your best-ever harvest — or what Dr. LeHoullier, a retired chemist who has grown perhaps 3,000 varieties, calls “epic tomatoes.”
***

“Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time” is Dr. LeHoullier’s 2014 book, now in its seventh printing, with about 80,000 copies in print. And Growing Epic Tomatoes is the name of an online course that he teaches with his friend Joe Lamp’l, the host for 12 years of the Emmy Award-winning public television program “Growing a Greener World.”
***

What makes Mr. Lamp’l — and Dr. LeHoullier, as well — smile even more: summer’s first ripe tomato.

[elleng]

1. WOW! Missed it!

[NJCher]

2. It was posted in the Gardening Forum

Eom

[JHB]

10. The Gardening group isn't one of my regular DU stops

I'm more familiar with the produce than the production.

[hlthe2b]

3. Terrific...

Those of us in the West could use his specific advice given our erratic and very delayed spring. Though I've learned the hard way that nothing (other than root veggies) goes in the ground before Memorial Day, even other locals forget and try when those unseasonably warm days hit beginning in March-only to be followed by a blizzard in April.
Last year neither my or my neighbor's tomatoes ever even ripened despite avoiding such cold-stresses and with all the usual measures taken in previous years. Go figure...

Good on him. Teach the world (especially with the heirloom varieties).

[oldsoftie]

4. I use buckets starting in Feb. Move them in & out depending on temp.

Because here there's always liable to be another frost before Easter.
Yeah, its a bit of a pain moving them all the time, but I love posting my first tomatoes on FB!
Our soil here at the house pretty much sucks and thats why I started using buckets.

[malaise]

6. Fabulous

Rec

[Celerity]

7. non paywalled link

https://archive.ph/Sotjd

use this site as needed going forward

https://archive.ph/

[multigraincracker]

13. I go to my local library once every few days

and read the Post and the Times, along with others I want to read. If I can't find it there, I go to the local University library.
I use to go to the local coffee shop as they had the local Fish Wrap that I refuse to pay $2.25 a day to read. I'd get a cup of coffee for two bucks and read the paper for free, less the tip. Start going to the library and found they have FREE coffee and won't even allow a donation for it.
I live within the Tribal Reservation, so my library card is good in any library in the county. I'm not a member of the tribe and feel that I don't own the land, I'm just a caretaker.

[panader0]

18. Which reservation?

I lived a year on the Warm Springs rez in Oregon. My house was right on the Deschutes River.

[multigraincracker]

21. Isabella Chippawa Rez.

In Central Michigan. Some great concerts at the Casino. We have an award winning fire dept too.

[dalton99a]

15. +1

[2naSalit]

8. Woo Hoo!

And just to celebrate...

[Hekate]

9. Wonderful!

[NoMoreRepugs]

11. Congrats - from a tomato lover.

[iluvtennis]

12. KnR. n/t

[dalton99a]

14. Kick

[FalloutShelter]

16. KnR

YAY for homegrown tomatoes.

Just watered my Byandywine Pinks.

[Solly Mack]

17. Woohoo! How great is that?!?!

NewHendoLib is a wonderfully nice man with a patience that only true kindness brings. He has indulged me over the years with encouragement when I've felt hopeless over current events.

I can't help but think those qualities, along with his extensive knowledge, is what goes into producing such outstanding tomatoes.

Maybe it sounds weird to some, but the fruit from a labor of love, coupled with the know-how, is just simply better.

Is it any wonder that he garners national attention?

I rarely flatter and I am not doing so now.

Well earned is well earned.

We have quite a few remarkable voices on DU and his is one.

[niyad]

19. I saw this when it first came out, but worth seeing again. My library has that book,

at my request, and it is in constant circulation.

[panader0]

20. I grew my first heirloom tomatoes last year.

Once you get past the fact that they're not the same shape or color as the tomatoes you
see in the stores, and just savor the flavor, they're great.

[KT2000]

22. I remember when the book came out!

Save the tomatoes!! Congrats on a NYT write-up.

[AllaN01Bear]

23. hokey smokes bullwinkle .:)

[canetoad]

24. Well done NHL

Very cool!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

25. Have the link to the DU post?

[Rhiannon12866]

26. Twitter replies:

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[calimary]

28. That sure looks like it qualifies as an Epic Tomato!

YUM! An edible work of art!

[Rhiannon12866]

29. Our fellow DUer is regarded as a national expert on growing tomatoes!

[calimary]

31. MAN! No kidding!

I love gardening. And I’ve grown tomatoes. But I never grew any THAT magnificent!

[Cha]

27. Rt TY & the North Carolina Tomato

guy!

💙💛

[H2O Man]

30. Recommended.