The field day was a reasonable
success even tho we
were rather disorganized. We are planing to do it again in 2010 on the
last Sunday before the Labor Day weekend, 8/29/10. We should have lots
of tomatoes ripe this year. Bring bug spray and good walking shoes.
Seed situation 2010
I'm
still working on processing a few of the new-to-me Tomato varieties.
I have about 100 new names on the New
for 2010 tomato list. The are dried and germination tested.
As it wasn't a good growing year for
good tomatoes, I have a whole lot of cracked and otherwise less than
perfect tomatoes out in the field. Right now I'm just saving seed from
aprox 1 - 5 gal bucket of tomatoes. I generally get
about 1.5 - 3 ounces of seed / bucket except from the Roma varieties.
If you are interested in buying seeds in bulk amounts of over 1 ounce,
give me an email and lets talk about what I may be able to do for you.
Also let's talk if you might be interested in having me grow bulk seed
for next year. I would need to know of your interest by March 2010 so
I could start enough plants of your desired varieties.
The some of the tomato pages
have been updated for 2010 with lots of new tomato seeds and
bulk packs. I have also
recently found out that some users on AOL have been unable to get the
cart to work at all. AOL customers and International customers need to
email me for a hand invoice.
The site as it is set-up right now will take you to PayPal for payment. If you want to use Google Checkout, email me for an
invoice.
I've gathered up all the eBay
info that was spread over several pages and put it all
together on a new page.
AOL
customers and International customers need to email me for a hand
invoice.
Send me an email and I
will send you a Google or PayPal invoice.
Email me if you want to pay with Google Checkout.
I'm not doing ANY selling on eBay
anymore. See the "Other Sales" page for more info about that.
Feel free to email me if you need info about anything.
Shopping Mall
New as of the end of
Oct. 06, my "friends" page is a now a mini
"shopping mall". There are over 100 links to other sellers that have
sites other than at eBay. There is also a Google search that will
search only those sites for you. It's still being tweeked a bit, but
hopefully you will find something unique from my friends. There are a
lot of handcrafted items there too.
As a vegie farm
Knapp's has been growing since 1976. Crops and
acreages vary from season to season, but we usually have from 20 to 45
acres in vegies. In addition to the vegies, we also grow about 1/2 acre
or more of the
smaller
multi-flowering types sunflowers for cut flowers.
We
sell all of our produce at local farmer's markets. We were
at the West
Allis, Wi. market for 20 years. We have also been at the The Dane Co.
Farmer's
Market since 1988. We are there almost
every Saturday from May to Nov. That market is better known as the
market
on the capitol square. I think it's the best market in the midwest, and
some
rank it only behind San Francisco's in the whole country. We also sell
at
the West Bend downtown market which is less than 5 miles from the farm.
I started selling at a Wed market in Brown Deer summer of 06. It's
a
small but very nice market. My hubby took over that market mid summer
07 when his job eliminated his whole department. In 08 the Brown Deer
market moved to the parking lot of Lowes on Brown Deer Rd at about 6300
west.
I sell at the Wednesday Madison market and have a
seasonal stall there. My 88 year old
mother has been helping me at both Madison markets. It has helped her
to 'get out of the house' and see people of all ages since her husband
died in the fall of 06.
We start the season with tomato plants -- 200 +
varieties of tomatoes.
One of our other specialties is our great Nightmare pepper sauce made
from the chiles we grow.
Check the page "peppers as house plants" for info on growing peppers as
house plants. Most
people don't know that many peppers are really tender perennials in the
wild.
We had a lot of damage to
our greenhouses in some bad weather in the fall of 05. We managed to
get the frame for a small greenhouse ready for spring of 2010.
Hopefully we will have another 1 or 2 ready before 2011.
I will post the plant
lists around mid April.
New for 2006 are pages for alternate sites where we sell. There is life
beyond eBay. There are also pages for my friends from many of
those sites. Another page has links to helpful boards where you too can
get info about building a web site, selling on alternate sites,
avoiding
being scammed and lots of other internet ecommerce necessities.
Thanks for stopping by. Please check out the rest of my site.
The
pages for Madison,
Friends, Boards, and Other Sales sites are now up. I
may tweak them a
bit, but at least a page is there. I have at least a blank page up for
all the main pages now.
Summer of 06 Google rolled out Checkout. I've changed my site
from PayPal buttons to Mal's Cart so it will work for Google
Checkout. I don't want to use PayPal due to some problems I'm having
with eBay
right now.
The web site
has a new look as of Feb 06. I'm hoping to give it faster page loading
where possible.
I'm trying to put many
of the graphics on their own pages.
As this takes quite a bit of time for someone that isn't a professional
at web sites, I am putting up the pages as they get done. For a while
that will also mean some links may not work because all of the pages
are not there yet. Please just keep checking back. If you need
something quick, please email me for more info.
Actually, a good web page seems to be a never ending project of updates.
For anyone that 'harvests' either of these emails and sells them to
'mailing lists', you should know that I screen my emails and report
spam to 'blacklist' sites instantly. So if you want to get blacklisted
fast, just send me a junk email for the latest dating, meds or porn
site. BTW, I'm a happily married white FEMALE, so I don't need your
Russian bimbos or male enhancements either.