Angela Marino is already getting calls about her homemade tomato sauce, and it is only April.

“Every time I see someone at a family event,” laughs Marino, who generously makes hundreds of jars of Italian pasta sauce every summer to share with family, “they say, ‘I only have two jars left!’ or, ‘When will you be planting – or picking! – your Telly’s tomatoes?’”

Marino, a Troy resident, has been growing tomato plants from Telly’s Greenhouse on John R., just north of Square Lake Road, for over twenty years.

“I wouldn’t buy my Roma tomato seedlings from anywhere else!” Marino exclaims. “Telly’s truly cares about every plant and every customer.”

George Papadelis, owner of Telly’s Greenhouse, recounts the start of the business, celebrating its 40th year.