Quality or quantity? Which is best?

Recently I was thinking of plants that my father favoured. As a semi-professional veggie grower, many of these were vegetables. I have already told you of his daffodils and his Ruby Red Rhubarb. Another of his favourites, another vegetable, was the Windsor Long Pod Bean, which he grew for many years. Many of them long after the Windsor Long Pod Bean was no longer in favour commercially.

Dad had his own veggie round 3 days a week and so grew as many of his own veggies as possible for his own use. It was only with beans that he grew more than he could sell himself on the Veggie Round. This excess, he used to take to the Wholesale Market with him and sell through an Agent (Or send through his brother in law; and much later, through me,) He always planted, so as to have this excess quantity, either at the beginning or end of the local growing season, thus getting top dollar for his product.

This always happened as the Agent could always sell Dad’s beans for top Dollar, as they were always top quality, even when Windsor Long Pod was long out of favour with other growers.

Other beans, like the Stringless varieties, may have been more popular than other string beans, but not Dad’s. Dad’s were always picked young and sold fresh. Even in a time when both stringless fresh beans and the even cheaper Frozen beans, were all the go, Dad never had any trouble selling his beans. There was even one lady who never bought anything else from him, because her husband used to buy cheap fruit and veggies from a Melbourne market. However for many years this lady always checked with dad in the appropriate season, to see if he had “His” beans and always bought 2 Pounds weight, every week when he did. Dad’s beans were always desirable, because Dad took care with his beans and picked and sold them at their best, going for quality over quantity.

Just like in every thing he did, Dad always gave his best. Do you, do I, take that same care and concern with all what we do and produce? Over to you: Walter