better tasting tomatoes
by Lela
(Canton, Ohio)
What do I need to put in the soil ? My tomatoes were pretty last year but kind of bitter.
Doug says the deal with tomatoes is to grow them stress-free. The more you stress them, the poorer the fruit is going to be. So - having said that, you need to make sure they get all the nutrition they want - I use compost in the spring (a shovel a plant) compost tea every month or so through the summer and fish emulsion (once a month or so) to keep things growing nicely. I also make sure they never suffer from water shortages. Those are the easiest two things you can do in order to get better-tasting tomatoes.
Then the fun thing is to decide just which variety you like. And here *everybody* has their own opinion. Hint - what does well in your region isn't going to be the better plant in other regions necessarily. :-) And your taste buds are different. You might want to check out this article on the vegetable seminar page.
