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Dutch fact about tomatoes: almost all tomatoes from the Netherlands are grown in greenhouses and most are grown on rockwhool. Computer systems fertilize water t
by tdrdt 5y ago
Dutch fact about tomatoes: almost all tomatoes from the Netherlands are grown in greenhouses and most are grown on rockwhool. Computer systems fertilize water that flows through the rockwhool.
The seedlings are grown in labs and then sold to the greenhouses.
And while it is not really organic food, most greenhouses don't use chemicals to keep pests and diseases out. A lot of times different kind if insects are used for this. So it is as bio as it gets.
But you can argue about the taste. While they are as healthy as soil grown tomatoes I think they taste watery.
- grenoire 5y agoI think the taste is not necessarily a hydroponics issue, but moreso a market issue. Dutchies choose unblemished pristine tomatoes, these strains are just watery by default. I can't even find heirloom tomatoes around here.
- RickyMoggels 5y agoThe taste of vine ripened tomatoes is incomparable to the 'industrial' tomatoes that are picked when they are still green. They are picked green so that they are firmer for transport and they ripe just enough to be red in the store. Let the same tomatoes ripen on the vine and they are truly amazing. I've grown my own tomatoes, same F1 Hybrid strains as the commercial growers use. There is a world of difference in taste.
- noiwillnot 5y agoAre there good Dutch tomatoes out there? I associated them with the worst tasting produce and avoid them like the plague.
- leoedin 5y agoSome of them best tomatoes I've ever had came (in winter!) from Thanet Earth, a massive indoor grow op in Kent, England. They grow all year under massive grow lights. I think a lot of the really good flavours in tomatoes are a function of sunlight exposure.
- tpaulin 5y agoI've yet to find any. I agree with tdrdt that they all taste watery, so much so that I'd aim to avoid Dutch tomatoes whilst living there.