Ellen Peffley Harp, a retired professor of horticulture at Texas Tech University, writes about gardening for several Texas newspapers.
Mmmm, good. Store-bought tomatoes just never taste as good as summer tomatoes from the garden. Store-bought tomatoes cannot compare to the color, the aroma, the texture, or the flavor of a vine ripened tomato.
Why the difference? Its chemistry. Specifically, ethylene (E-thih-lene), a gaseous hormone involved in biochemical pathways of many developmental processes of a plant. With only 6 atoms, the …
