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>Outdoor tomatoes are way way tastier than the mass produced industrial crap >just let the plants grow naturally. You mean that a small crop of plants, grown s

>Outdoor tomatoes are way way tastier than the mass produced industrial crap >just let the plants grow naturally. You mean that a small crop of plants, grown steps from your door and harvested at an optimal point in time taste better than mass produced vegetables? What a revelation! Too bad that it's completely unfeasible for 90% of the global population, who live in crowded cities, or work jobs where they can't be tending to their garden, or live in environments where they can't grow produce most of the year. Do you really think the poor and hungry on the planet care about the fact that the homegrown tomoatoes you're using in your California garden-party salad have slightly more flavour? Let them eat cake!

athenot 11y ago
It doesn't take a lot of land to actually live off of it. Factor about 1/10 an acre per family member. It's even less if you can trade grain and only grow the rest.
- DougWebb 11y ago
  That's six times the size of my apartment. 3 to 9 square feet would be the most I could manage; maybe I could grow herbs but that's about it.
  - Symbiote 11y ago
    You could easily grow tomatoes, peppers or maybe even cucumbers in that space, either in pots or a relatively shallow (12cm of soil?) rectangular container. Although only if you have a sunny window. Example: http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tomatoes-indoor1.jpg http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/t...
jessaustin 11y ago
This attitude betrays someone who has never actually tried to raise tomatoes. It's not difficult, and rich people have no special insight into the process. Of all the things that are hard for poor people to get, dirt is not one of those. Have you lived in Kowloon Walled City your entire life? [edit: not impugning the humanity of KWC folks; just grasping at straws to imagine those without access to sunlight] No? Then you owe it to your humanity to raise some tomatoes. If you can get online you can find some seeds or seedlings. No one is born in Antarctica; everyone has a summer of some sort. Maybe you're working three sixty-hour jobs, but that means someone in your family is not. Grandma can certainly spend twenty minutes every three days weeding. Do your weeds grow faster than that? Congratulations, then your tomatoes will also grow faster.

athenot 11y ago

It doesn't take a lot of land to actually live off of it. Factor about 1/10 an acre per family member. It's even less if you can trade grain and only grow the rest.

DougWebb 11y ago
That's six times the size of my apartment. 3 to 9 square feet would be the most I could manage; maybe I could grow herbs but that's about it.
- Symbiote 11y ago
  You could easily grow tomatoes, peppers or maybe even cucumbers in that space, either in pots or a relatively shallow (12cm of soil?) rectangular container. Although only if you have a sunny window. Example: http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tomatoes-indoor1.jpg http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/t...

jessaustin 11y ago

This attitude betrays someone who has never actually tried to raise tomatoes. It's not difficult, and rich people have no special insight into the process. Of all the things that are hard for poor people to get, dirt is not one of those. Have you lived in Kowloon Walled City your entire life? [edit: not impugning the humanity of KWC folks; just grasping at straws to imagine those without access to sunlight] No? Then you owe it to your humanity to raise some tomatoes. If you can get online you can find some seeds or seedlings. No one is born in Antarctica; everyone has a summer of some sort. Maybe you're working three sixty-hour jobs, but that means someone in your family is not. Grandma can certainly spend twenty minutes every three days weeding. Do your weeds grow faster than that? Congratulations, then your tomatoes will also grow faster.