Great post! We really do appreciate the things we do ourselves and don't have any appreciation for stuff that is bought for cheap.

Also, it is sometimes impossible to go to the store and buy the same vegetable. One case is tomatoes. I can go to all the best supermarkets in Seattle area and even to Farmers Markets later in summer and buy their best heirloom tomatoes, but for some reason the supermarket ones don't taste anywhere near as good as the ones grown by me and even farmers market ones tend to be very inferior with maybe a few exceptions that basically is the same variety of a tomato and was picked at the exact time of ripeness and hasn't laid around too long.

So basically that is the reason why I grow my own tomatoes. I like to have control of having exactly right assortment of heirloom tomatoes that are picked at the exact time of ripeness and consumed promptly :)

I guess you can call me Tomato Connoisseur LOL