$2.50 tomatoes

[trof]

$2.50 a POUND!
They've got to be kidding?
Right?
ferk

[aquart]

1. The price goes up to the trucker because of gas, gets passed on to us.

[Ikonoklast]

12. "....because of gas, gets passed on to us."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Let me firmly and positively state that in no way do I want, need, or otherwise desire a trucker passing gas onto me.

[Kittycat]

2. $2.50 - $3 here.

It's 2.50 for the regular stuff, and 2/$3 for a pint of grape or cherry tomatoes. $2.79 for Roma.

My tomatoes out back cannot grow quick enough :(

[China_cat]

6. I've already got them.

Romas, cherry and better boy. Cherry tomatoes should be ripe in the next couple days, romas in a week or 2, better boys just starting.

I also did my first basil harvest today. Made 2 quarts of pesto. Beans are coming along, carrots and beets are going great guns. Between what I'm growing and the local farmer's markets, it's going to be a full freezer this year.

[Kittycat]

14. So jealous. Here in the Chicago Area...

we're just getting ours in the ground. We did starters in the basement, so my plants are around 12+" tall, but there is little to them - pretty sticky looking right now. We won't start seeing fruit until sometime in July, I'm sure. Same thing with the beans, peas & peppers, but lettuce should be ready sometime next month.

I do have fresh herbs already though - which is nice :)

Peppers is another thing that freaks me out. $3.50/lb on sale for red, orange & yellow. Green are now never cheaper than $2.50/lb.

[China_cat]

15. Green peppers in the store here are $1.00 ea

and not even big enough for stuffed peppers. However, I tried some last year and they flopped badly. My hot peppers were great, but the bells were just plain sad.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Cheap.

They're much more expensive here and have been for a while.

[eShirl]

4. I didn't even look

just grabbed the 2/$4.00 strawberries and got the heck out of there

[izzie]

5. Sounds like Alaska. You needed a down payment -----

that was years ago but any thing that came in by air was really costly.

[zanne]

7. I hate store-bought tomatoes.

They don't even taste tomato-ey. I wouldn't pay a nickel for one. I'll just wait until my garden produces "real" tomatoes.

[Sherman A1]

8. That is just the beginning

You may think prices are high now, but my only response would be "not yet"....

[msongs]

9. wow, my backyard tomatos are a gold mine :-) nt

[and-justice-for-all]

10. Grow your own...or at least you better start...nt

[trof]

16. I am. My seedlings are 4" tall.

[and-justice-for-all]

20. Can'em!!

[MANative]

11. Man, that's a bargain here in Fairfield Cty, CT

$3.99 is the going price per pound on tomatoes and has been for quite a while.

[NightWatcher]

13. and because they are GM, they have no taste

remember the days when food had a taste to it?

[trof]

17. And blueberries. $4 for 4 oz.

$1 an ounce.
ugh

[Vinca]

18. Tomatoes $2.50 a lb.? Where did you find them so cheap?

Where I live the tasteless ones are $2.99 and the good ones are $3.49. Next week I'm planting tomato plants . . . lots of them.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

19. Off season, I've seen them as high as $3.99 a pound here in NY. I have 5 plants growing on my deck

now. :)

[Wiley50]

21. 3.00-3.50 here, just north of you east of Nashville, and not worth a crap either

In the store I just look the other way.

Oughta grow some, but last year the sturdiest prettiest tomato starts i ever set out
got some kind of wilt just before bearing, broke my gardening heart.

There'll be plenty to buy at the farmer's market here soon.