Dahlia
Garden Addicted
I just learned that supposedly if you add a few teaspoons of baking soda to your garden, you can boost the sweetness of your tomatoes!!
Do you wish for sweeter tomatoes?
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digitS'
Garden Master
Flavor is likely very complex, probably includes a combination of proteins, minerals and starches.
That sentence indicates that I really don't know anything about it
. But ... I'm gonna guess that sugar is only a part of the complexity. If sweetness is high, other flavorful compounds may be lacking.
Saying that is my cover for admitting that i prefer tomato sweetness. I find that in hybrid cherries — my choices. Oddly, Yellow Jelly Bean stands out for me and one reason is that it tastes like a red cherry.
BTW – I've read that the skin to meat ratio of cherries means higher sugar content is possible without splitting. Degrees Brix, the horticulturalists say, for measuring sucrose.
Steve
That sentence indicates that I really don't know anything about it
. But ... I'm gonna guess that sugar is only a part of the complexity. If sweetness is high, other flavorful compounds may be lacking.Saying that is my cover for admitting that i prefer tomato sweetness. I find that in hybrid cherries — my choices. Oddly, Yellow Jelly Bean stands out for me and one reason is that it tastes like a red cherry.
BTW – I've read that the skin to meat ratio of cherries means higher sugar content is possible without splitting. Degrees Brix, the horticulturalists say, for measuring sucrose.
Steve
flowerbug
Garden Master
after last year i don't think i could get sweeter ones.
using baking soda would change the pH of your soil a little and that can make more of certain other compounds available to plants.
i'm not too likely to do it here, i need to go the other direction for pH with some elemental sulphur to counteract the well water which has some calcium in it.
using baking soda would change the pH of your soil a little and that can make more of certain other compounds available to plants.
i'm not too likely to do it here, i need to go the other direction for pH with some elemental sulphur to counteract the well water which has some calcium in it.
