Funny how that works. I can remember tomatoes from my parents and other neighborhood gardens (stolen) from when I was kid. They has wonderful sweet tart flavor. Today's HYBRID tomatoes varieties taste like cardboard and there's not much you can do by way of soil enhancements to make them better. Forget store bought. They're even worse. Watermelons are the same, especially those "personal" ones.
Most produce today is bred or modified to improve appearance and shelf-life. They could care less about nutrition or taste. In our garden, we only grow heirloom varieties and they always taste better than the new stuff.
I remember about 60 years ago when my grandparents hauled five watermelons from Texas to us in Montana. Mighty fine. Similarly, we once lived in "The Navel Orange Capital of the World" in Southern California and a grower friend of ours picked a box of oranges from what he considered the best tree in his groves. My other grandfather carried them on his lap on the plane to northern Wyoming. Hard to get that kind of produce now a days.
Any time I can find whole watermelon WITH SEEDS in the summer, I buy it. My Better Half screams nonsense about not enough room in the fridge, the mess, the seeds everywhere etc., until she takes a bit.
Funny how that works. I can remember tomatoes from my parents and other neighborhood gardens (stolen) from when I was kid. They has wonderful sweet tart flavor. Today's HYBRID tomatoes varieties taste like cardboard and there's not much you can do by way of soil enhancements to make them better. Forget store bought. They're even worse. Watermelons are the same, especially those "personal" ones.
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Most produce today is bred or modified to improve appearance and shelf-life. They could care less about nutrition or taste. In our garden, we only grow heirloom varieties and they always taste better than the new stuff.
ReplyDeleteNothing like a watermelon grown in the sandy loam soil of NE Texas. Well, 60 years ago, anyway. Now, maybe not so tasty.
ReplyDeleteI remember about 60 years ago when my grandparents hauled five watermelons from Texas to us in Montana. Mighty fine. Similarly, we once lived in "The Navel Orange Capital of the World" in Southern California and a grower friend of ours picked a box of oranges from what he considered the best tree in his groves. My other grandfather carried them on his lap on the plane to northern Wyoming. Hard to get that kind of produce now a days.
ReplyDeleteAny time I can find whole watermelon WITH SEEDS in the summer, I buy it. My Better Half screams nonsense about not enough room in the fridge, the mess, the seeds everywhere etc., until she takes a bit.
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