What you'll need:
- Coffee (preferably lots! ) :o)
- A few seed catologs... Johnny's, Jung, Burpee, and maybe Mr. Sandyman if you want to try some rare heirlooms
- Some of Daddy's ingenious spreadsheets that outline strengths and weaknesses of different varieties
- A careful eye and a ready good humor!
A. Size (i.e. massive two-pound fruits)
B. Resistant to Fusarium Wilt, ABCD terrible virus and sudden flop over dead syndrome
C. Will NOT bruise, crack, crush, squeeze, respond to pressure, burst or split
D. Superb, decadent, mouthwatering flavor and crunchy, juicey, bursting texture typically found in heirlooms or less genetically modified varieties with high brix (sugar content) and thus high mineral and vitamin content
If you choose A you will sometimes struggle with flavor and produce less fruit.
If you choose B (I am assuming you are a small farmer) you will not gain the advantages a mass producer would because you will typically not have those diseases in a small clean environment with proper rotation and symbiosis, and your variety will have been so genetically modified to accomplish this immunity it will have lost it's flavor.
If you choose C you will enjoy hard, powdery textured fruits that last forever without spoiling and never quite ripen having poor flavor.
If you live on Six Arrows Farm you will with very few exceptions choose D. Whatever is good for you in that particular fruit or vegetable will be enhanced 10-fold because of the high brix, you will enjoy bountiful harvests so that small amounts of spoiling will not bother you and the flavor and texture will be simply incredible. In fact, the test of "real" food is how quickly it spoils! If you bite into an apple and it quickly turns brown it is a real apple. Similarly, if the food on your counter spoils rather quickly you know it has something good in it, unlike the 10-year old granola bar and the 6-month-old wrinkle-free apple!
So what words make for a Six Arrows Farm variety choice?
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