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Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Love this. Gotta work on my tomato growing skills.
"Gotta work on my tomato growing skills." Why? this is precisely what you get when you pay an exorbitant amount per pound @ Publix for the exact same tomato
Heirloom tomatoes taste way better than those cardboard-tasting plastic-like experiments the supermarket chains keep throwing at you! These look like what is called the "oxen-heart tomato" our way - excellent for salads and for sauces!
...or the taste. The hybridization of tomatoes over the years has resulted in uniform meaty fruit with thick skins and NO TASTE. Even some of the heirloom varieties don't taste like the tomatoes I remember from my youth, grown in Mom and Dad's backyard garden. Soils and type of fertilizer has a lot to so with it also.
I've grown some pretty tasty ones on my deck in pots using store bought garden soil and Miracle Grow.
The knobby look is uneven pollination. I use an electric toothbrush to vibrate the flowers, which distributes the pollen and stimulates unwanted suggestive comments.
Tomatoes are a seed thing aren't they?
ReplyDelete"Gotta work on my tomato growing skills."
ReplyDeleteWhy? this is precisely what you get when you pay an exorbitant amount per pound @ Publix for the exact same tomato
What you get a grocery chain is not the same thing as you could grow.
DeleteHeirloom tomatoes taste way better than those cardboard-tasting plastic-like experiments the supermarket chains keep throwing at you! These look like what is called the "oxen-heart tomato" our way - excellent for salads and for sauces!
ReplyDeleteTasmanian Chocolate tomatoes are the current juicy choice
ReplyDeleteDon't expect an heirloom appearance from Early Girl, Big Boy, or whatever generic tomato plant that you might buy.
ReplyDelete...or the taste. The hybridization of tomatoes over the years has resulted in uniform meaty fruit with thick skins and NO TASTE. Even some of the heirloom varieties don't taste like the tomatoes I remember from my youth, grown in Mom and Dad's backyard garden. Soils and type of fertilizer has a lot to so with it also.
DeleteI've grown some pretty tasty ones on my deck in pots using store bought garden soil and Miracle Grow.
Nemo
The knobby look is uneven pollination.
ReplyDeleteI use an electric toothbrush to vibrate the flowers, which distributes the pollen and stimulates unwanted suggestive comments.
I'm sure there are some of your hopefully mostly unseen body parts that quiver from the electric toothbrush.
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