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Taste.

• Grimburger 3y ago
  Can understand doing it for environment/sustainable/prepper reasons but do homegrown potatoes really taste better? Have grown my own on a hobbyist level and they tasted the same
  • GoToRO 3y ago
    I only did it this year. If you grow your own, then you can select seeds that are not comercially viable but they will be way tastier. A commercial farmer will ditch any seed for another one that yealds 5% more production. You don't have to. I got some potatoes from the local market, from a region that traditionally is planting a lot of them. These were the best potatoes I had in a long time. They were more yellow in color, much denser and tastier. I also got some tomatoes that were quite big, softer meat and very good taste. These kinds of tomatoes can not be sold in big retail chains because they are easily damaged by transport (soft skin). I saw a documentary about seeds. A french lady was beeing harassed by different french institutions because she was mailing traditional plant seeds to people. In Romania there are still people that use their own seeds but we also have people buying the same seeds that comercial farmers use. In this case the produce will taste more or less the same like the ones from the big stores. PS: I forgot to mention, my potatoes had deep "eyes" (roots) inside them. This means that they can not be peeled with a machine in a factory. They are not comercially viable.