The Knight Life by Keith Knight for February 22, 2024

That’s why I’ve grown my own tomatoes since 1979 and skip them out of season.

So? Add some ketchup to your tomatoes!

Bananas, mangoes, papaya, pears, tomatoes and a slew of other fruits are all picked well before ripeness and shipped green. At the storage facility prior to shipment to the grocers the items are placed in sealed rooms and then have ethylene gas applied to force ripening. The artificial ripening does nothing to promote the natural sugars that are present with normal on the plant ripening. Hence, they are tasteless.

Yikes.

Thank dog we have a hot house full of tomatoes. And string beans and sweet peas.