Why do my vegetables and fruits such as tomatoes, potatoes, spinach and lettuce taste unbelievably better than the store bought ones?
Most commercially grown tomatoes are picked green. Tomatoes get almost all their flavor in the last 7 days of ripening. So store bought tomatoes do not have much flavor. Potatoes are usually on a 2 year rotation. That’s right they are 2 years old. Our 2 & 4 year olds just love eating the spinach and lettuce fresh out in the garden, it tastes much better than the $5.00+ small box of organic in the stores. Common head lettuce has zero nutrition so is used as “filler.” Very few people realize growing their own vegetables and fruits will offer flavors they have never experienced before in their life.
