Does home grown taste better?

soz i forgot you was up god or was that someone else i do like your short bread thou

 

ok as long as you let me in at the pearlee gates

 

I have grown a few heritage strains
It takes a brave pallet to eat them but thats how used to the norm we are
I grew some parsnips a few years ago that would put black pepper to shame
Yet when coverd in honey and mollases mix were food of the gods

 

It's amazing how bad commercial strains are when it's off season, once you know how a vege should taste.

 

Im afraid that good simple food has gone for good in the uk

 

I grow my own tomatoes they taste so different to shop ones, would love to do more but never seem to be arsed.

 

Biggest difference I've noticed is radishes. Shop bought are just little bags off water, my mother in laws homegrown will blow your head off!

 

The seeds the mem sahib got for this season are heritage varieties. We're hoping for a better harvest this year, We're learning as we go . Will have to post some pics of our allotment later in the year. I'm not sure if your own veggies really taste better, but the fact that you planted and harvested them makes them taste better in your head and that's good enough for me

 

would like to try to grow potatoes in old tyres mate of mine did it and they tasted ace, 'tis amazing how shop stuff tastes of nothingness.

 

Our tomato crop has been decimated by the hailstorm we had the other day.
Just as they were getting ready to harvest.

 

Cant have your toms and eat them

 

I'd love to do more growing... but it does slightly depend what shop you buy from... and what you grow at home. You can't beat good home grown, an easy one we do is lettuce grown in a pot - fantastic! But I've also had some pretty disappointing stuff... Supermarket veg is total rubbish though.

The veg from my local corner shop is actually pretty good, the tomatoes are at least twice as tasty as the ones Sainsbury's sell and probably 4 times tastier than the disgusting ones I had from Asda the other day. Somehow the Turkish shops and restaurants in North London manage to get hold of some really good produce, not expensive either. My local Turkish butcher is fantastic too, the lamb's half the price of the next nearest butcher and tastes a million times better than supermarket meat.

Not much use if you don't live round here, but it's worth trying markets, car boots, greengrocers, convenience shops, anywhere really, the quality does vary. Supermarkets prioritise shelf life and appearance over flavour so best avoided IME.

 

Are they "German Quality" Heritage or just Chinese carp that'll rust quickly?

 

Actually they are British or Aussie varieties, none of this foreign muck

 

is not Aussie land foreign?

 

Not to me

 

Not interested in this thread, I thought it was going to be about tits.