If you want to grow big and juicy tomatoes, the answer is fairly simple. Heading over to advice platform Quora, someone wanted to know how to grow yummy, delicious, and juicy tomatoes. Another individual did their best to explain how to achieve this.
How to get tomatoes to grow big and juicy?
The Quora user said to choose the seeds of the big juicy variety. Plant them in sunny spots. Use tomato plant food.
If you grow seedlings at home first and then replant them in the sunny garden, you need to provide a shade for the seedlings first so they can adjust to full sun.
Why do homegrown tomatoes taste better?
A Reddit user explained why homegrown tomatoes taste better. They said that the tomatoes that are packed and ship will generally have less flavor.
They wrote: “Your local grocery store wants to throw away as little produce as possible. They choose tomatoes that look good, and have a decent shelf life. (Remember these tomatoes are coming from California and Arizona during the colder months, they will have been picked for a week or so by the time the grocer gets it.)
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“Try putting a grocery store tomato on a sunny windowsill for a week or two sometime, you’d be surprised by the flavor improvement,) the Reddit user said.
Taste difference between small tomatoes and big tomatoes
A Quora user explained the taste difference between small tomatoes and big tomatoes. The larger tomato’s flavor is diluted by a higher percentage of water by volume than the smaller more flavorful small tomato, they said.
The smaller sizes of tomatoes (cherry and grape) are also closer to their original genetic makeup before hundreds of years of human selective breeding for size.
