Written by Andrew Stoy, I couldn't find an online copy to share, but it's easily summed up, or you can find a April 22nd 2019 Autoweek, page 6, to read.
I try no to question the rationality of fussing over tomato plants for six months when perfectly good tomatoes are sitting at the corner market any more than she questions the rationality of devoting hours of labor to the disassembly of a transmission for which we have no car.
I try no to question the rationality of fussing over tomato plants for six months when perfectly good tomatoes are sitting at the corner market any more than she questions the rationality of devoting hours of labor to the disassembly of a transmission for which we have no car.
According to my wife, the grocery store does not have "perfectly good" tomatoes. She won't eat them. She only eats home grown ones, the store tomatoes are bland. If you want flavor, you have to get if fresh.
ReplyDeletewell, I buy Roma tomatoes, not the regular water filled ones... so, I guess we're seeing eye to eye on that. Also, there are many types of grocery stores, from the 99 Cent Store, to Target and Walmart, and I suppose Kroger, Triggs, etc, but then there are the Sprouts, Windmill Farms, Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and what not that are very focused on the higher quality healthier foods and more reputable farms.
DeleteSo, I suppose you can say that the term "grocery store" depends on where you live, and what comes to mind for me when I used the term liberally to generalize all vegetable selling businesses.
There are even strictly farmers outlets near me... I guess if I was a foodie, I'd be quite tired from driving all around to select the very best from each store until I'd decided there was nothing better - the same way I've tried pizza places. Life is too short to not try all the possible pizza places until you've found the very best one within a half hour drive.
Also, I grew up on home grown, from a garden I helped plant in 1st grade on the side lawn, to my grandpas 40 acre place with 4 fields for veggies, to the home we lived in after I was in 4th grade until graduating high school... and I can offer my experience as a tomato eater in the raw, with sugar, with salt, and in a salad, or on sandwiches.
DeleteThe flavor of your tomato depends a lot on the soil... just like coffee and tobacco.
So, you can go with no added fertilizer, store bought peat, store bought miracle grow, or farm fresh horse or cow manure, chicken shit, and then there is the house recycle effort of a compost pile for all the organic materials that get tossed in the garbage.
Now, that's a lot of various ways to energize the garden soil, and try for better yields, whether you have a sandy, clay, overly wet, or even alkali soil type that you must deal with unless you want to move or rent a field from a local farmer.
Back to your main point, at least, what I think it is, my wife also likes to plant stuff and dig in the dirt. So for her, that is something of a hobby, the same way my collecting stuff is a hobby.
Deletethe original point of the article is that to be married means to ignore the insanity of each other. It's not my point, I'm just posting stuff I find that is cool, maybe helpful, sometimes funny
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