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If you grow your own tomatoes they taste amazing. Also, to get the best sugar content, the thing to do is to leave them on the vine once ready and stop waterin
by SixSigma 11y ago
If you grow your own tomatoes they taste amazing.
Also, to get the best sugar content, the thing to do is to leave them on the vine once ready and stop watering them, the stress causes the plant to dump its energy into the fruits.
They will taste better but if done commercially it extends the time to market and reduces shelf life.
When you grow your own vegetables you realise how low quality most of the ones in the supermarket are. And what a restricted set of choices there is.
- mirekrusin 11y agoThis is very true, I remember taste of tomatoes grown by my grandpa 15-20 years ago, it's almost a different veggie. Same with strawberries I remember eating from bushes as a kid, didn't taste or look like the ones in the shop. Cherries on the other hand are pretty good. Maybe because they grow on trees, which have much longer lifetime and therefore are harder to optimize for yield. Also seeing couple of cherry "farms" made me think it's a good idea - instead of pesticides, genetic modifications, in-house cultivation or whatever - they use gigantic mesh to protect them from unwanted animals and I think that's it. I don't know if it's a common practice or just few exceptions I've seen.
- Nihilartikel 11y agoI have to voice disagreement on cherries. I grew up near a park with a ready supply of wild cherry trees, which I gorged myself on many a summer - compared to a big Bing cherry they have a really concentrated flavor and a juicer, less firm meat that would bruise pretty easily in shipment. I at least like them much more