Yeah get sucked in by those big, pretty berries that have no flavor, like grocery store tomatoes, all looks and no flavor. That seems to be the model of commercialization, it's all about the looks
In the winter, I only buy the small ones. Cherry tomatoes or those slightly bigger ones that come in packages. They usually have decent taste. Any bulk ones are crap - even the fancy ones on the vine. Tomatoes are MY vegetable. One of the few that aren't green and that don't smell like week-old socks when you cook them.
Wow, it looks like a deep blue sky out there. I’ll be spending plenty of time under it.you reckon the time will come when all power lines/phone lines will be buried to protect them from wind/weather/tree limbs ? it sure won't hurt photography any...i'm sure that the states that harvest pine trees for poles will be pissed though.
Now that I think about what your saying, I have to agree with you. Winter Cherry tomatoes tend to be better texture and flavor over regular tomatoes, which I find very similar to chewing a piece of lightly flavored cardboard.In the winter, I only buy the small ones. Cherry tomatoes or those slightly bigger ones that come in packages. They usually have decent taste. Any bulk ones are crap - even the fancy ones on the vine. Tomatoes are MY vegetable. One of the few that aren't green and that don't smell like week-old socks when you cook them.
read a neat article about pickling green cherry tomatoes and using them like olives in martinis etc. i don't drink martinis, it just looked like a good use if one had too many. i had a vine last year that produced more than my wife would/could eat.I froze some cherry tomatoes last fall
I am fine - other than the usual old guy stuff. It is my better half that is going through the ordeal and she is over halfway done this round. I have to keep beating her with my optimism stick.How are you feeling these days?
Old guy stuff...that never ends till it does. My friend says "you have to be tough to grow old"I am fine - other than the usual old guy stuff. It is my better half that is going through the ordeal and she is over halfway done this round. I have to keep beating her with my optimism stick.
Cherry tomatoes can be extremely productive. I had one in a 25gal ctn last summer and had to anchor it down so it wouldn't blow over in the wind.read a neat article about pickling green cherry tomatoes and using them like olives in martinis etc. i don't drink martinis, it just looked like a good use if one had too many. i had a vine last year that produced more than my wife would/could eat.
After rad therapy tomorrow we are eating sandwiches in the car as we drive out to her favourite garden centre - which is up in my teenage stomping grounds of Markham - just NE of Toronto. I don't even recognize it now - how's that for old guy speak?Think I'll go buy a cherry tomato seedling soon.
For most produce to travel around the our country they are picked early then hydro cooled and then put in temp controlled refrigeration trucks to be doled out to stores…then when it arrives in stores most of the time produce is rock hard and not much shelf life and they can never fully ripen before they go bad…It was always a breath of fresh air when grocery stores would get in the local homegrown stuff…didn’ last long though here in NYSYeah get sucked in by those big, pretty berries that have no flavor, like grocery store tomatoes, all looks and no flavor. That seems to be the model of commercialization, it's all about the looks
thinking of youAfter rad therapy tomorrow we are eating sandwiches in the car as we drive out to her favourite garden centre - which is up in my teenage stomping grounds of Markham - just NE of Toronto. I don't even recognize it now - how's that for old guy speak?
From now on, I don’t wanna be hoodwinked by my fruit and vegetables. We’ll see how long it lasts.For most produce to travel around the our country they are picked early then hydro cooled and then put in temp controlled refrigeration trucks to be doled out to stores…then when it arrives in stores most of the time produce is rock hard and not much shelf life and they can never fully ripen before they go bad…It was always a breath of fresh air when grocery stores would get in the local homegrown stuff…didn’ last long though here in NYS