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I would strongly recommend against Cherokee Purple, and suggest Oxheart instead if you want a fleshy tomato, if you mostly want them for sauces and the like can't go wrong with San Marzano. Some of my Cherokee Purple plants outright died at some point after being put outside while the ones that made it barely produced anything while my Oxhearts just had kilos each with individual ones going up to a pound in weight, some massive fucking tomato on that one, the San Marzano also produced lots and lots but those don't get as big individual fruit. Should get those seeds germinating soon.
 
If you don’t care about hybrid tomatoes, you can get some plants started with supermarket tomatoes easily. You just slice some up in a pot with veggie friendly soil. I compost and I made the mistake 4 years ago of chucking in rotten tomatoes. Every spring, I get tomato plants growing out of that sucker. I don’t know if your landlord would care about that Josh, but it is “black gold” if you can manage a little compost bin. Maybe a freestanding spinning one would be okay at least for veggie scraps and grass clippings.
 
NULL. IF YOU ACTUALLY GROW TOMATOES...

I can't recommend enough that if you encounter aphids to buy a shitload of ladybugs. They're cheap and it's great to watch them wake up and crawl all over your plants. Plus you might get a few who stay after chowing down on aphids and lay eggs. Then you can watch the ladybug life cycle in full. It's more fun than spraying insecticide.
 
Castoreum said:
NULL. IF YOU ACTUALLY GROW TOMATOES...

I can't recommend enough that if you encounter aphids to buy a shitload of ladybugs. They're cheap and it's great to watch them wake up and crawl all over your plants. Plus you might get a few who stay after chowing down on aphids and lay eggs. Then you can watch the ladybug life cycle in full. It's more fun than spraying insecticide.
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Alas, the Slobbermutt has formed an alliance with the ladybug kingdom against the evil empire of the aphids before only for the ladybugs to desert him in his hour of need. Where were the ladybugs when the banana peppers fell?
 
Null, when you say you don't like tomatoes do you mean the average Goymato you get at Walmart or the heirloom tomato? If you haven't tried them, give heirloom tomatoes a try, those things actually have flavor.
 
Null said:
nigga tomatoes are mexican
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This is true but basically every culture that found tomatoes were hesitant to start eating them including the south American natives for which tomatoes weren't a particularly popular crop until much later around when the Spanish showed up.

Tomatoes are acidic and part of the nightshade family so people thought they were poisonous, in fact when the Spanish Introduced the tomato to Europe the only people that could afford them were the rich who often ate on pewter, but they made pewter with lead in it which only became a problem if you are acidic foods on it like tomato. So it quickly got the reputation for being poisonous.

The different South American pre Columbian cultures did use tomatoes in food but not to the extent they did other natives fruits and vegetables, tomatoes exploded usage and complexity in the hands of Europeans. Although every culture uses them because tomatoes rock.
MIC Shill said:
You gotta be white to appreciate a good 'mater.
Kinda like Horseradish, there's a built in Vril check.
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Tomatoes are one of those fruits where a fresh one is extremely different. Like texturally, flavor, depth, juice. It's like eating an entire different plant. It's like eating nothing but canned pears all your life and then eating a fresh ripe one.

Although I think all the luxury and highest quality tomato brands and types are grown in Italy and the Mediterranean.
 
Quintus said:
I wouldn't eat a tomato like an apple. But I would slice one up and eat it with some olive oil and black pepper.
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I used to get fresh ones from a neighbor and essentially slice them up and eat them raw with salt and pepper.

Also an extremely tasty and easy side dish is literally just a small roasted pan of cherry tomatoes and garlic and olive oil. It essentially turns them into an extremely savory tasty jam.
 
scallion said:
I can't bite into a large tomato like an apple but I used to grow little grape tomatoes that were super good, just pop em in whole.
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Those are the best ones to grow. Idiot-proof and they taste amazing fresh-picked and still warm from the sun. Make a killer sauce if you have the time to process them.

This line of convo has triggered my ex-produce clerk autism.
The run-of-the-mill tomatoes you see in American grocery stores are usually hot-house tomatoes and sometimes Roma. They are picked green and "ripened" in transit/cold-storage with artificial ethylene. If ever you had to ripen a peach or an avocado, someone might've told you to put it in a bag with a banana or an onion. That's cuz ethylene is a naturally occurring chemical produced by fruit/veggies that are ripening, but because Americans value looks over flavor/texture (I'm looking at you, red delicious apples), the tomatoes are red on the outside, but extremely mealy and flavorless on the inside.
 
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