Store Bought Tomatoes Are Disgusting

They're farmed for size, appearance, and durablity during shipping. Flavor isn't a factor. This goes for the majority of the massed farmed produce.

I can't eat them, and I'm about as big a tomato fan as there is. I can eat the little cherub tomatoes from a grocery store, but that is about it.

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I can't eat them, and I'm about as big a tomato fan as there is. I can eat the little cherub tomatoes from a grocery store, but that is about it.

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I feel the exact same way, the little cherry/grape tomatoes are the only ones from the grocery I will eat raw. I only buy tomatoes from the grocery to cook with

I just started growing my own. We have about 15-20 tomatoes between 2 plants. I have about 5 that are ready to eat, and I am so excited to try them.

I was wondering the same thing. I planted earlier than I ever have this year and still have several weeks before I get a tomato.

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I planted earlier than I ever have this year and still have several weeks before I get a tomato.

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same here

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how do you have ready to eat tomatoes at the beginning of april? i planted early this year (3/1) and i've stll got a month to go before i'll have anything close to ready to eat

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February 11 I planted 4 Better Boy and 4 Beefsteak, 4 crooked neck squash and 4 burpless cucumber.

February 15 I planted 2 rows of red Lasoda potatoes, 1 row of Kennebac potatoes

February 18 I planted 1 row Contender bush beans, 1 row Henderson lima bush beans, 1 row Blue Lake bush beans and 1 row of Sugar Ann Sugar Snap peas

March 10 I planted more Contender bush beans, Cherokee purple and Roma tomatoes.

I've picked several squash, half dozen cucumbers and by Friday I will have two nice beefsteaks and a good batch of sugarsnaps.

Put a store bought tomato on your counter and it will stay the same looking for a month. And tastes like shite.

If you don't grow them buy local at a local fruit stand when the spring tomatoes start coming in.

And yes I planted very early since I was putting the potatoes in and the nursery had some out I figured what the hell if I lose I'll lose ten bucks tops. I got lucky.

I planted a few pickling cucumbers the other day as well.

So also not knowing what I was doing, , I didn't cage them until the plant had already grown way bigger...so the ones that fell on the ground when I was stuffing the plant into the cage are the ones I "harvested". Next year I'll know better, especially since I've researched a ton more now that I know that I can, in fact, grow tomatoes. Lol. I still have about 15 on the two plants that are growing wonderfully. Good to know it's pretty foolproof!

Here are the ones that had fallen. I basically put them on a plate to let them ripen/turn red:

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Why has quality gone down for store bought produce?

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because we are wanting things on the shelf year round that shouldn't be there year round.

Like I said, buy a pretty red tomato at Albertsons and put it on your counter. It's like a decoration. A month later it will be exactly the same.

The thing they are doing now is starting to grow heirlooms like Cherokee purples and soon enough they will be the same.