Originally Posted by ladybug45
Beefsteak tomatoes are the best. My husband bought and planted the tomatoes this year. He said he couldn't find Beefsteaks. The ones he bought aren't nearly as good.
My Nurseryman husband told me that here in California we can not grow a lot of the ones that grow beautifully back east. We have lots of nasties in our soil that prevents the less hybrid ones from growing. The "Beefsteak" we get here does not taste as good nor is it as big as the real thing we had in WV. And as for a real mortgage lifter, there was one developed before the war years near my home town of Milton, WV. Still have pictures somewhere that shows a small outbuilding totally covered with them, roof and all. And my hill family says their veggies still taste good if they keep their own seeds from old varieties. They have sent me lots of seeds over the years, and even in a sterile greenhouse, they die after growing 4 or 5 inches tall. Might as well try to enjoy what we have and can grow. |
I remember the taste of my mom's and grandma's tomatoes, and the ones today just taste "flat" compred to those. I am not sure what is going on with them, but I think that everything may be getting hybridized, including some of the "heirloom" varieties. That is just my suspicion, and I may be wrong too.
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I live in Maryland and it has been extremely hot this spring and summer. I think that it has affected the tomatoes. The skins are hard to chew and not as sweet.
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In my garden I have all kind of tomatoes, from cherry tomatoes to Tasty Toms and Pommodore and several wich name I don't know because they where give aways. But they all tast great and sweet even taste better then last year. Did your tomatoes catch enough sun and warmt? Tomatoes don't like watering from above, alway water them by their feet. When its very hot they must have a lot of water in the morning and in the evening.Tomatoes does like to be in the area with asperagus and beans (but mine are also near the corns)and they do also like a metal stick to grow at, not a wooden. Tomatoes don't like to be touched with smokey hands.
I don't know whats going on with your tomatoes but maybe these tips will help a bit. Oh and I never use hybride seeds because I can't use that seed again for the next year. |
This year I grew Heatwave II and Sungold cherry tomatoes. Neither did as well as last year's Celebrity and sungold because of the heat and especially the $*&^%@(*($! leaf-footed bugs! Does anyone know of a way to control them other than with two bricks?
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Sweet 100's, a prolific cherry tomato variety, has good tomato flavor.
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Try using calcium for blossom end rot.
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I have been buying the better boy and better girl tomatoes. When they make, they are terriffic. no tomatoes anyplace around here this year. First we had too much water too fast and too long,now we have scotching heat filled days that are burning the gardens up.
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I have been buying the better boy and better girl tomatoes. When they make, they are terriffic. no tomatoes anyplace around here this year. First we had too much water too fast and too long,now we have scotching heat filled days that are burning the gardens up.
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Originally Posted by Debbie B
I have notice that my tomatoes the last couple of years don't have that good tomato taste. They're not bad. This year I bought some beefsteaks tomato plants from a little old woman out in the country. Now this year they taste more like tomatoes. In the past I bought the tomato plants from the local nursery or big chain store. Wonder what the difference is?
"I have been buying the better boy and better girl tomatoes. When they make, they are terriffic. no tomatoes anyplace around here this year. First we had too much water too fast and too long,now we have scotching heat filled days that are burning the gardens up." both of those varieties were developed here in new jersey at rutgers university, which has an agricultural program with gardens open to the public at certain times of the summer. this summer their own tomatoes stink. |
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