Tomato sales 101

In Desember, my husband packed up all forty of our tomato plants into our little car and drove me and the plants to a lovely market at Gabrielskloof outside Hermanus. It was a great market - good food, nice people, animal- and child friendly (see . But it also tought me some tough lessons about tomatoes.

Things I learnt about tomato plants at the market:

- old people like them, but they don't buy them. They grow them themselves.
- people on holiday like them, but they also don't buy them. Who wants a tomato plant to worry about when you're seeing the country?
- little kids like them about as much as old people, and they do buy them (well, their parents do).
- little kids only buy them if they have baby tomatoes on them (which only two of my plants had).
- I should not try to make a living from selling tomato plants - I would be dirt poor.

But just because I sold only five tomato plants, it doesn't mean I didn't have an absolutely great time. So here are some details and happy pics:  

I shared a stall with Ros, who sold natural perfume (divine), and Rox (by gosh, their names rhyme), who makes lasercut jewellery, vinyl stickers and other lovelies. I got the awesomest brooch and necklace from Rox - lasercut watering cans! It totally goes with my gardener image. Other awesome things at the market were: locally brewed beer (Darling), the bargain bin at the fabric stall, the macaroon-stall next to ours and a sushi stall. Who'd have thought? But no other garden inspiration, sorry.

Some happy pics:

Beautiful tomato plants

Rox and her lasercut jewellery and other goodies. See her blog here.