Until their last few years my parents always had a garden.
I don’t know the exact reason but home grown vegetables are way, way better than commercial ones.
The Walmart in our rural community started buying tomatoes from local farmers in Grainger Co TN. Oh! so good. They taste like homegrown because they are homegrown. I love growing tomatoes and so do neighbors. However, the deer, diseases and pests make it a real challenge. The natives tell me that forty years ago, there were no deer, diseases or insect pest for their gardens. That’s a good thing because if the farmers of yesteryear had the pests of today, they would have starved.
Now I hear that gov’t is bringing back elk to the state. Does anyone know if elk eat tomatoes?