What tastes different from the garden?

[annie8]

My husband commented last night that the carrots in the dinner had a really strong carrot flavour. They were the last of the stored garden carrots from last year. Just thinking what else do people grow that really tastes different from shop bought. The other one that I would suggest is tomatoes - no comparison.

[Snoop Puss]

I'll tackle this the other way round: the only thing I think doesn't taste better is long-storage onions.

Sweetcorn is miles better than shop bought. Everybody loves first early potatoes. Courgettes have a much better texture plus flavour. Even cabbages are sweeter!

Out of interest - and sorry because it's off topic - how do you store your carrots?

[Bren In Pots]

My favourite homegrown tasting veg are tomatoes, carrots, new potatoes, peas and mixed lettuce.
I grow in my back garden and you can’t beat nipping out for fresh veg.

[annie8]

True Snoop puss. Sweetcorn is a good shout they are so nice straight from the garden. I store my carrots in sand in the greenhouse. Seems to keep them well.

[ameno]

I find that fruit, especially, tastes better from the garden. Strawberries, raspberries, plums, apricots. Softer fruits usually have the most noticeable difference, as those fruits are intentionally picked underripe for the supermarkets to reduce the risk of bruising. Tomatoes, too.

[Nicos]

Totally agree with you all.

A few years ago we had some clients from Paris who asked if they could possibly have some of our courgettes so we passed them a knife and told them to help themselves.
They came over a few minutes later and said none of them were ripe …
Urmmmm…..so we went and had a look with them and they said that none of them were bendy enough yet
It was really difficult not to burst out laughing but poor things had been sold old produce for years in the shops.
Very tactfully we suggested that the harder ones were actually more tasty, and they were absolutely enthralled by their flavour.
Bit sad really isn’t it?

Thought you’d find that interesting.

[annie8]

Agree you don’t know what veg and fruit should taste like until you get them fresh out of the garden.

[peanut]

Fresh berries picked warm in the summer sun, can't be beaten. Apples wet with Autumn dew, so much crunchier and full of flavour, you just can't buy that kind of freshness in the supermarkets. Fruit, to me, is a rewarding and worthwhile inverstment.
I agree with everyone else about carrots, toms, sweetcorn etc.
I also love growing PSB and Sprouts especially because all the young leaves and even the flower buds/stems are so deliciously sweet and tender, they are so much more than just the bits you get in the shops.
Home grown anything is just better

[Penellype]

Everything, but if I had to pick only one thing it would be fresh peas. You simply can't buy anything even vaguely similar in the shops.