98 - Why Homegrown Tastes Better than Store Bought

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

Gardening, Garden, How To, Education, Organicgardening, Home & Garden, Leisure, Homegardening, Beginninggardener, Vegetablegardening

4.4 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

If you grow a garden, you know that homegrown vegetables taste better than anything you can purchase in the produce department of your grocery store.

But why do homegrown vegetables and fruit taste better? Is it purely a mental thing -- where we naturally enjoy most what we put our hard work into growing? Or are there also scientific reasons why store-bought tomatoes don't compare to homegrown?

In today's episode of the Beginner's Garden Podcast and post below, I share with you 4 reasons why the fruits and vegetables you grow yourself taste better.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net,
0:06.1	and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the tools they need to grow a rewarding, productive garden. Hi guys. So great to be with you today. You know, in the middle of August, a lot of us are eating directly from our gardens almost every night. That's one of my favorite
0:39.8	things about this time of year is my grocery list when it comes to the produce department is so
0:46.2	small. I love that. And I certainly hope that you are having that same experience as well.
0:52.6	And if not, maybe you can check out the local
0:55.3	farmers market and get some fresh local produce there. At least two to supplement your garden.
1:01.3	That's always a great idea to support your local farmers and get some really good food.
1:06.5	But why is it that we enjoy homegrown local food so much better than anything we can buy in the produce department?
1:15.7	Why does homegrown food actually taste so much better?
1:20.8	I just mentioned the farmer's market, and that's something that I've been able to do the last few years, specifically with my blueberries.
1:27.4	I do take a few
1:28.6	things here and there, but for the most part, we can them all for our own use and it never ceases
1:33.9	to amaze me how people react to my homegrown blueberries. They will tell me that they are
1:40.7	the best blueberries that they have ever tasted. I get text messages when the kids
1:46.2	have eaten half the blueberries that they've bought before they even get home. And because I haven't
1:51.9	bought a store-bought blueberry in so many years, I think that I take that for granted sometimes
1:57.4	that, yes, my fresh-picked blueberries do taste that much better than what you can
2:03.0	get at the store. But that definitely doesn't stop with blueberries. You can find that to be the
2:08.0	case in just about everything you grow. And while we all know that homegrown tastes better,
2:15.1	I thought it would be fun to talk about the reasons why. Last spring,
2:20.7	I was invited to my son's sixth grade science class, not just his, but the whole day of
2:27.1	sixth graders, I was invited to come and teach about gardening. And I taught about several different
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