Taste difference.

[greenishfing]

I love fresh tomatoes. It was only when I decided I wanted a tomato sandwich for breakfast this morning that I truly realised how addicted I was. I 'd had a tomato sandwich for supper.

Before I started growing my own I could take or leave tomatoes. I have memories of tasteless, watery underipe blobs. I have my favourites now of course but the difference between any fresh, homegrown tomato and even the best supermarket one is huge.

What fruit and/or vegetable does everyone else think tastes so much better when homegrown?

[Thelma Sanders]

Fresh peas and sweetcorn

But thinking about it, most harvests taste better - simply because they are fresher than supermarket stuff.

[greenishfing]

Fresh peas and sweetcorn

But thinking about it, most harvests taste better - simply because they are fresher than supermarket stuff.

Oh yes sweetcorn! Some of the dried up husks sold in the supermarket beggar belief.

[Snoop Puss]

Just about everything homegrown tastes better, if only because I pick things just before meal time. And the texture is always better for the same reason.

And you're right about sweetcorn. I'm one of those people who get the water boiling before I pick it. Probably not really necessary, but Mr Snoop likes the ritual of the first cob of the year. Haven't grown any this year, but there's always next...

[ESBkevin]

New potatos. Show them the cold tap, then flash them in boiling water. Nob of butter and some mint.

Root crops like parsnip, carrot, beetroot.

Most fruits like strawberries, raspberries etc. straight of the plant, nothing better. I think only my celery was down to the supermarket standard (or even below because it was hollow stemmed).

Love me a bit of home grown.

[Bren In Pots]

Home grown tomatoes are the best, I oven roast some to eat over winter because I refuse to buy any.

[greenishfing]

Home grown tomatoes are the best, I oven roast some to eat over winter because I refuse to buy any.

Me too, but fresh are still best.

[Chestnut]

Lots of things just taste more than the shop bought variety. I’m convinced that’s why my grandparents always reminisced about how veg used to taste, as they were accustomed to home grown!

There’s very little I prefer shop bought - sometimes swede and carrot (home grown sometimes too strongly flavoured for some recipes), and of course the stuff I don’t manage to grow (never yet got celery more than an inch high!)
;-)

[chillithyme]

Everything homegrown tastes better. I didn't know what sweetcorn was really meant to taste like until I grew it myself. Same goes for tomatoes. If I could I would grow 100 tomatoe and 100 sweetcorn plants each every year and happily eat them at every meal time, snack and break

[SarrissUK]

Tomatoes and carrots is where I really taste the difference, but to be honest, I've never grown anything that doesn't have superior taste to what I buy in the supermarkets. If I had to choose just one, it would be carrots. Unfortunately the blasted carrot fly is rampant on my allotment site, and they're not thriving in m clay back garden.

[Tripmeup]

Yep I agree on carrots..obvious taste difference as too have sweetcorn and tomatoes

Can't beat new potatoes either and soft fruits..

[Stan79]

Unfortunately the blasted carrot fly is rampant on my allotment site, and they're not thriving in m clay back garden.

What sort of barrier are you using to stop them?


On the main topic - I’m another one that sets the pan to boil, toddles down to the veg plot, picks some sweetcorn or digs some spuds and pits them straight into the boiling water. The sugar doesn’t have time to convert to starch and the taste is amazing!!!

As others have said - everything tastes better from the garden though!

[Nannysally99]

Home grow runner beans are fabulous
So are tomatoes, they are coming back in next year

[Jungle Jane]

Supermarkets prefer fruit & veg that last longer in storage rather than taste,it’s all just money to them but they’re a business with competition so it is difficult for them,some of the best tasting strawberries would spoil too quickly,they choose varieties that lack flavour but survive long journeys from other countries. Everything tastes better homegrown & the freshness gives us more vitamins. Ive noticed with my apples I can cut them for breakfast,go back to the core hours later & it’s still not brown,shop apples are brown a minute after cutting

[Can the Man]

I love the taste of home grown new potatoes, carrots and peas.
For fruit it has to be home grown strawberries and raspberries