Posted on 05/12/2017 1:55:20 AM PDT by vannrox
Oh, I wouldn't. Unless you plan on picking them green, then gassing them; they should turn out tasty tomatoes.
A lot of the produce sold at farmer’s markets aren’t grown by farmers; they are sold by ‘resellers’. When buying at the market, ask the vendor where his farm is located. Unless they are ready with a handful of BS; that may trip them up.
Bingo, you are exactly right. Poor taste is why I too have been raising my own tomatoes for 30 years, when I am in country.
Notice the cherry tomatoes at the store are usually better tasting because they ripen too quickly to be gassed.
Roma tomatoes taste better because most are from Mexico where they are more likely to vine ripen.
Home grown in Mexico are delicious, especially in the Yucatan.
They don't need to survive all the handling that fresh tomatoes will get, so they can be picked ripe off the vine. I don't find that sad. Canned tomatoes are a genuine labour-saving device. Though I am disappointed I can't buy them fresh and ripe at the supermarket, since I'm unable to grow them myself.
On the other hand, I believe store-bought cherry tomatoes are also picked ripe, which is why their flavor is so much better.
I have noticed that the cherry tomatoes and grape tomatoes can taste very good.
We havent been given a choice. If they offered us a bin of tomayoes that look good vs another bin that tasted good, you just might see us gravitate to the good looking bin.
We havent been given a choice. If they offered us a bin of tomayoes that look good vs another bin that tasted good, you just might see us gravitate to the good TASTING bin. I meant good tadting. I hope that wasnt a freudian slip.
I am old. When I was young, strawberries were sweet as candy. Now most of the strawberries in a pack are hard and tasteless. I think they must pick them green as well. Notice how most on the top layer will be kind of sweet and ripe, then as you go down they get hard and tasteless. They throw a few vine ripened ones on top so you go “Yum!” And then the rest suck.
That comment wasn’t directed at you specifically...just the general public. Sorry for the confusion.
Grainger County Tomatoes from East Tennessee, best in the world!
I have a solution. Those complaining should get a 5gal pail and grow a cherry tomato plant. Usually bountiful and very tasty.
Gotcha, thanks.
I grow tomatoes in a difficult weather area of the US but for the rest of the year we only buy the cluster tomatoes from Costco and use lots of salt on them...
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