How you decide what to grow in your garden is really perhaps one of the most personal choices

in the garden at all.

I mean, I know people who grow ornamentals only, I know people who grow tomatoes only, potatoes

only.

I might be that third person, that potato only person sometimes.

I've grown maybe 40 different varieties of potatoes.

Today though, we are talking about a relative of the potato, the tomato.

And so we have Rebecca Sears back on the podcast, Chief Gardening Guru at Fairy Morris.

Rebecca, you were telling me a little bit ago that you kind of came to gardening through

cooking, which is certainly opposite to how I came to it.

Yeah, I've always loved to cook.

And you know, the more I learned about cooking and where I realized the importance of the

quality of the ingredients and how that plays into the successful outcome of the dish.

And the reality is you'll never find a tomato in the grocery store that's as delicious

as you can grow yourself.

And that's because store-produced varieties are bred for transportability and then harvested

early before all the sugars have had a chance to develop.

But you know, since that's not a problem to solve for garden seed varieties, home garden seed

varieties, breeders have focused primarily on flavor and home gardeners, you know, typically

try to harvest at the optimal time.

So you know, in the end, you get a much more delicious tomato when you grow it yourself.

You really can't beat it.

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