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Nothing beats a home grown tomato picked ripe from the vine. I can't always have that, I consider store bought tomatoes as basically a different fruit/vegetable than a tomato. I buy the Nature Sweet cherubs. They are usually at least a little flavorful and consistent in quality.
In Little Town on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, she describes enjoying tomatoes with sugar and cream. This food blogger didn't care for it at all, but I suspect that tomatoes tasted so different back then that she really didn't get the "Little House" experience.
Tomatoes are a fruit, so I don't know why it sounds so unappealing to me to serve them the same way you'd serve strawberries or raspberries.
I hated tomatoes all my life and then I tasted a home grown one. Wow! I never knew they could taste like that. So now tomatoes go on my list of things never to buy at the supermarket, along with strawberries, watermelon, corn, and blueberries.
The only exception I made was when Winco, of all places, got in a cherry tomato called Reserve Estate, I think. Or maybe it was Estate Reserve. Something like that. They looked almost like a chocolate cherry tomato and boy, were they good. So naturally, I went back for more, but I guess no one else was buying them and they all went moldy and were thrown out. *pouts*
I like Campari tomatoes the best out of anything the grocery stores carry, and around here they sell for $1.99 lb. Nothing will ever beat farm fresh from NJ though.
The Campari tomatoes are my favorite also. Occasionally I will find an Ugly tomato that is tasty but nothing beats the taste of a tomato grown in your own yard or patio.
A few years back my grocery was stocking something called Ugly tomatoes and it was offseason. They were ugly but they were delicious. Never saw them again. Apparently there is some tomato Mount Olympus that decided if a tomato doesn't look a certain way it cannot be exported. So unless you live in Florida you cannot find them. Oh well. At least I was able to try them once. Ridiculous!
I live in Florida and we have Ugly tomatoes here. They are something like $3.99 a pound! Try the Campari tomatoes.
It's so easy to grow your own! You don't need a "garden". Just use containers, out on the patio. No muss, no fuss. Just as easy as growing flowers, only better-tasting!
I live in Florida - a friend lives in New Jersey. She sent me some heirloom tomatoes to grow on my very small lanai. However when she found out my lanai was screened in she told me I couldn't grow tomatoes in there because they couldn't get pollinated. Anybody know if this is correct?
I live in Florida - a friend lives in New Jersey. She sent me some heirloom tomatoes to grow on my very small lanai. However when she found out my lanai was screened in she told me I couldn't grow tomatoes in there because they couldn't get pollinated. Anybody know if this is correct?
It's not correct. Tomatoes are self-pollinators, and mostly the wind does the job, not the bees. Shake the plants gently every now and then so the flowers will be pollinated and they'll set fruit.
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