Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:56:28 -0700, Janet Bostwick
> > wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 13:39:24 -0800 (PST), Robert Miles
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday, November 30, 2012 6:18:29 AM UTC-6, William wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> I've read that most tomates are now a type bred to turn red before they
>>> are ripe. To avoid this, you may need to grow your own tomatoes, and
>>> if any variety is tasteless, don't plant that variety the next year.
>>> The older varieties are more likely to still have taste.
>>>
>>> Robert Miles
>> That's a bit of bull pucky, don't you think? It may be true that
>> tomatoes designed to withstand the rigors of shipping to market
>> (commercial types) have sacrificed flavor in favor of endurance. But,
>> most? I think not.
>
> I've grown too many types of tomatoes to count, never a home grown
> vine ripened tomato that didn't have great flavor, all types different
> but all very tastey. Most supermarket tomatoes have little flavor and
> their texture is dry. If I picked my tomatoes while barely turning
> ripe and let them ripen off the plant (which I've done end of season)
> they are edible but never taste better than those at the market.

I don't think I had a decent tomato this year. My grown tomatoes have not
done any good the last two years. Some kind of disease, plus I got
stinkbugs. The ones I got from neighbor were not up to par. They all go bad
quickly.

Greg