Reply #18: I have no idea

[NJCher]

Maybe I'll start watching now that you've brought the matter up.

Lots of meals out, though, here.

Hey you guys who don't like the tomatoes--maybe you've just had those winter tomatoes. You should try a fresh NJ tomato (if you can get it) in the summertime. You'll never think the same way about a tomato. Also, the varieties in the store are bred for shipping, not taste. It's little wonder you would not like them.

I grow all kinds of tomatoes in my garden in the summer and some heritage. My black krim tomato was outstanding! The heritage tomatoes taste the best, IMO, but they have all kinds of little peculiarities in their culture.

For a paste tomato, a true San Marzano can't be beat. Again, though--fussy. I have to pick them as soon as they're ripe. They do not last on the vine at all.

Re veggies/cost, the Korean grocers are a Godsend here. The produce is so much less expensive. We also have a Japanese market that has fabulous produce at very reasonable prices.

I grow a lot of my own, too. Just today, for example, I dug up a huge basket of carrots. I winter over herbs and salad greens in cold frames, which is nice. I still have arugula and Japanese purple mustard greens doing fabulously well. Also leeks.


Cher