Tomatoes taste great in the summertime. Sweet, juicy and red, summer toms taste great. But the rest of the year, tomatoes are tasteless, pink and hard, a far cry from summer perfection. If we can make corn to fuel cars, take the seeds out of watermelons and grow grass that's made for golf course greens, isn't it time some botanical genius make a decent tasting, year-round tomato?
2006-08-19 01:32:53 · 6 answers · asked by smedley21075 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
you can, but you gotta remember one thing... here in america, beauty and perfection sells, not flavor or taste.
you see those perfect hothouse tomatoes in the supermarket? those were bred to be beautiful. the flavor is often flavorless. if you want flavor, you need to find a farmer's market that sells heirlooms, and that can be a bit more expensive.
that being said, winter is different that summer because tomatoes are grown indoors, usually in hydroponic systems with the absolute minimum amt of nutrients needed to support it; you can't grow full flavored tomatoes that way...
2006-08-19 01:41:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-26 01:31:33 · answer #2 · answered by vogt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, it's possible. But the best-tasting heirloom tomatoes must be vine-ripened and then don't ship well. It's all about the shipping. Commercial tomatoes are picked green and hard, then "ripened" (that is, reddened) with ethylene gas. Commercial growers select varieties that ship well, period.
Unless you find a local hothouse source for out-of-season tomatoes, you may be out of luck too.
2006-08-19 01:41:25 · answer #3 · answered by keepsondancing 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they can, but they can't get those to your house 24/7 year round. They need varieties that store and ship well. They're not really interested in getting you flavor too; it would be too expensive,
2006-08-20 06:25:33 · answer #4 · answered by dderat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hydroponics and Grow-lights. Heck, grow your own.
2006-08-19 01:40:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wouldn't be natural. Read all about it. http://www.organicconsumers.org
Read about GMO, and Monsanto. You wouldn't believe it, SEE WHO IS BEHIND all of this. [our administration]
2006-08-19 01:39:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋