Why good apples but bad tomatoes?

greggf · September 5, 2006

This season was bad, bad, bad for tomatoes.

Taste goes downhill every year after about August 15th (which means peak flavor is only a week or two, and then only on relatively taste-free early varieties). But this year was worse than usual. Besides getting cloudy gel early, all varieties got mealy, too.

By contrast, "Fedchak Acres" produced its first apple crop this year - two Quinte apples off six young trees, and they are heavenly. And the aroma - holy cow, if I could get tomatoes this good..................!!

I know tomatoes are tropical and apples ain't, but...................

My question is, why would apples taste so good the same season that tomatoes taste so foul? Forming fruit is forming fruit, subjected to the same cool monsoons............

=gregg=

September 5, 2006	#1
greggf Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Boonville, NY Posts: 419	Why good apples but bad tomatoes? This season was bad, bad, bad for tomatoes. Taste goes downhill every year after about August 15th (which means peak flavor is only a week or two, and then only on relatively taste-free early varieties). But this year was worse than usual. Besides getting cloudy gel early, all varieties got mealy, too. By contrast, "Fedchak Acres" produced its first apple crop this year - two Quinte apples off six young trees, and they are heavenly. And the aroma - holy cow, if I could get tomatoes this good..................!! I know tomatoes are tropical and apples ain't, but................... My question is, why would apples taste so good the same season that tomatoes taste so foul? Forming fruit is forming fruit, subjected to the same cool monsoons............ =gregg=