[Liskaspexia]

...nutritionally, maybe. But you can't tell me that the crap they shovel out of the supermarket is anywhere near as good taste, texture or freshness-wise as the stuff my dad brings home from the farmer's market every weekend. My tongue still works, and I know that it's inferior. If your homegrown tomatoes taste the same as supermarket variety, you're doing something wrong.

BTW, I didn't say anything about "organic"; organic is meaningless to me. The advantage to locally-grown is that it's bred for flavor and not for being able to withstand getting trucked around for hundreds of miles. Also it's not frozen for transport and you can eat it more or less fresh off the plant. I don't care if you grow it with eight dozen kinds of pesticides and fertilizers provided it's a good variety and I can get it fresh.