Welcome to TaterMater proboard

[tatermater]

Welcome Everyone,

I am starting this proboard forum discussion format to launch some of the things I have wanting to do for a long time.

My TaterMaterSeeds catalog ran from 1983 through 1986. Since then it has been a research and development enterprise.

My specialties have been taters (potatoes) and maters (tomatoes) and my breeding work with these fruits and vegetables will be front and center of most of the forum activities.

I invite anybody to hop on board and add subjects, messages, and replies.

Tom Wagner aka Tater Mater

January 25, 2008[/img]

[tatermater]

Wikipedia has this info on Green Zebra, but I just added a few lines and corrections

Green Zebra is a tomato cultivar with characteristic dark green and yellow stripes, although there are newer variations that blush a reddish color instead of yellow when ripe. It is slightly more tart than regular tomatoes, and it is an unusually early breed.
Green Zebra was bred by Tom Wagner now in Everett, Washington, and first introduced in his Tater-Mater Seed Catalog in 1983. Given its recent origins, it is not an heirloom tomato, despite often being mistakenly designated as one.
Tom Wagner has recently launched his TaterMaterSeeds.com website. Tom breeds new potato and tomato varieties. For more information email Tom from his website, or at [e-mail]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Zebra

I am hoping to give more information to the public as to the origin of the tomato and how it has spread all over the world.

Tom Wagner Tater Mater

[tatermater]

In order to offer more information about my work, I also am a moderator at the TomatoVille forum

www.tomatoville.com

CrossTalk
www.tomatoville.com/forumdisplay.php?f=70

Potatoes
www.tomatoville.com/forumdisplay.php?f=89

[tatermater]

I put this message up over on Alan's Homegrown Goodness proboard forum.

Proboard Tater Mater Seeds Tom Wagner
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tatermater.proboards107.com


In preparation for starting my TaterMaterSeeds.com website, I thought it would be nice to get some community input for how best to format my website with advice from folks at Homegrown Goodness. I got to see the first page today as a preview.

Alan, I looked at your forum structure and was amazed how well it is working for you and your members, and I noticed that proboard can be downloaded like novices such as me. So if you feel that this subject and message should be deleted, I would understand. If you feel that my interjection with an independent proboard can broaden this community......Thanks. I have not shown this private proboard startup to other sites as yet.

I need to concentrate on how my years of tomato and potato breeding can help folks, and how their messages can be laid out for everyone to see and trade ideas for themselves.

I started a few lines on my tatermater.proboards107.com just to see if I could start a more personal dialog with folks focused on what I am doing.

I, frankly, have failed all of these years not knowing how to communicate with folks. I couldn't do it at the old AOL garden forum, gardenweb, internettomatoes, tomatoville, globalpotato and to some extent even seedsavers forums! I have found some good friends here at Homegrown Goodness, however I need daily focus groups to make my work come alive. Pardon me if my approach seems too selfish, but I am at wits end lately, and I don't want to quit my life's work just yet.

I will continue to post here, I like the broad based interests that are shared at this site. I don't want to take anything away from Alan, but if anyone wants to brainstorm with me about potatoes and tomatoes, the discussions may open up new venues of research, varieties, and information.

Tom Wagner aka TaterMater

[kctomato]

Thanks for doing this Tom

Best Wishes
Keith

[canadamike]

Hi Tom! Congratulations on your new site. I will gladly follow your work from here, and would love to be involved...A friend at Agriculture Canada is looking into the regulation for me. He used to work in the potato import department but is now in another one.

The lady in charge is supposed to call me soon...but at least I know that the Washington State's certification process is recognized in Canada, it should help!

Good luck in all your endeavours...

Michel

[grungy]

Another good site. Best of luck, Tom will be checking you out often and maybe even managing to post once in a while.

Michel, being another Canuck, when you hear from Ag Canada, please let me know the regs.
Cheers,
Grungy/Val

[canadamike]

With pleasure Val. By the way, where do you live? I am in Rockland, 42 km east of Ottawa, zone 4 (american system) across the river from zone 3. So I guess it makes me a zonal hybrid of some sorts...LOL

[johno]

I'm glad to see you're up and running, Tom! Thanks for starting the TaterMater site.

[tomakers]

I wonder what happened to my post?? I posted about 3:30 AM. I guess I was too quick. Good luck anyhow. I too saw your post on Alan's board. I know you have produced some wonderful NEW tomatoes. I hope the new board goes as well.
Tom

[General Board]

Kctomato
canadamike
grungy
johno
tomakers

Thanks to all who have signed up and for posting

As I try to learn how to manage this forum, I hope to do a PowerPoint type of presentation of sorts. All I have to do is learn how to put photos up on the message area and proceed.

I am trying to put together comprehensive info grouping including a blog that I started in 2003 and never reposted in. The blog will supplement the forum, website, and pdfs as they mature. I hope someone can assist me in writing and posting pictures on Wikipedia. I edited some wiki areas already.

I will start the links to these other sites as I find a bit more time to summarize my intent.

Thank you for your patience while I get up to speed.

Tom
Tater Mater

[grungy]

Hi Michel,
We are located in the south east corner of BC, just before Kootenay Lake begins. It is about 10 miles north of the state of Idaho and just north east of Washington state,
Val

[grunt]

Tom: I will definitely be looking at the board, as often as the workload permits. I'm sure you can (and will) make my head spin with the finer aspects of your breeding work, but I'll wobble along with it. I can get them to grow (tomatoes), lord knows why, but have never purposely tried crossing them, just grown out some hybrids, and accidental crosses. Once we get a bit more caught up in our grow outs I will probably try doing a bit of breeding, as it does intrigue me.
I don't know how much I will be able to contribute, if anything, but I will likely ask questions, and start flapping my gums when I start to think I understand something about what you are saying.
In the meantime, I can help a bit with putting pictures in the message area: the fourth icon from the left on the bottom line in the add tags box above the message box, is the one for posting images. when you click on it, it brings up [/img], and you just paste your image address between and [/img]. Basically the same thing you do to to make a url link. Or did I completely misread you there?
I have read some of your postings, here and there, and look forward to what I can learn from you here, where you are more or less captive (by your own hand).
Cheers
Dan (Val's partner in tomaticide).

[clarkbar2311]

I'm here too...and glad to be here.

[tatermater]

tater-mater.blogspot.com/

I need some input on this blog that I have resurrected from a 2003 attempt. I didn't know how to use it then and only a bit now.

I placed some photos there and it looks almost better than a website.

What does anybody think?