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Tomato 'record' falls: Pewee ate homegrown tomato May 1, 2009 Standards must prevail, he says. People can't just go around claiming the first tomato and get away with it. Junior Feese, an bystander who really has no dog in this fight - he just stands for justice - nonetheless united with Sinclair in his outrage. "We're both mad." Sinclair said for himself and his eyewitness. Click on headline for full expose, eyewitness pictures By Ed Waggener It's barely 10:30amCT and already there is trouble roiling in Adair County. It took about two hours before Barbara Armitage, guru of the Adair County Garden Club, to have her title challenged. A.L. Sinclair called this morning to let it be known that the claim by Barbara Armitage of having the first homegrown tomatoes was way premature. "We had a ripe tomato from my garden on Friday, May 1, 2009." He does not have a picture, but he does have exact physical proof of his tomato and the required reputable second observer. "It was big enough to hang out over a good sized hamburger," he said. "About 3" in diameter. About an 8 oz tomato." Moreover, he maintains, it was under Sanctioned Growing Conditions, with no hot house inducements, no illegal steroids. "Mine was grown right out back of my house. In my garden. Outside," he said. And for proof, he said, "Barbara (his wife Barbara) helped eat it. And Junior Feese saw me picking it on Friday." Junior Feese is A.L.'s neighbor and testified that what A.L. said is the truth. "Me and Junior are both mad," he said, reclaiming the first tomato title for East 80, natural growing conditions, and the sanctity of the old-time, all local Superlative Garden Titles Standards. "That Barbara Armitage has been taking that poor tomato plant around everywhere she goes," Pewee said. "It's a wonder she didn't kill the poor thing, much less get a tomato from it. She was dragging it around at the garden show." Pewee, whose supporters maintain he is the champion gardener of Adair County, has cabbage already making heads, plenty of tomato plants, and is eating green onions from the garden. Some camps say the champion gardener of Adair County is Russell Guy Perkins, others say it is Tommy Giles. The summer and the harvests will tell. This story was posted on 2009-05-04 10:39:17
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