Yes, it is a big call but I hereby throw down the gauntlet and challenge everyone to match your favourite home-grown veg against this stunner.

Its aroma and taste is delicious. Its incredibly versatile and now a staple of many countries around the world. I’ve always found the plants easy to grow and producing masses of vegies. Better still, eating them has some great health benefits.

However, there is one winning factor for me that makes them stand above the rest of my vegie patch (also literally) and it is this; I can think of no other vegetable which, when home-grown, demonstrates such a *huge* difference in taste from the supermarket variety.

I’m talking of course about the tomato. Continue reading »