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Article: Top 10 secrets for growing the perfect tomato.
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- Waterloo Courier (Waterloo, IA)
- Article date:
- June 4, 2006
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Byline: Melody Parker
Jun. 4--When Scott Meyer was a kid, he couldn't understand why his parents grew tomatoes at home.
"You could get them at the supermarket -- where all food comes from," laughed Meyer, editor of Organic Gardening magazine.
He's grown up and realized a truly good tomato is hard to find.
"Maybe at a farmers' market, but the things we see in supermarkets look like tomatoes but they don't taste much like the tomatoes we remember from our youth. ... The flavor, the texture, the juices aren't there because the fruit has to be grown for shipping and storage. A real tomato -- the one picked right off the vine in your own ...