Tomatoes on the vine

[Booldawg]

Why are they more expensive? Surely it takes less time to harvest them.

[puddicat]

Goes it gives customers the rustic hype back to nature crap!and sadly people will think they are better and will pay the price thus the price being higher,i bet you if they sold wheat in its raw state,people would pay!!!

[Kim A]

I suspect it's because they're trendy and because each little stick of precious tomato-ey globes has to be individually measured to a specific EU centimeteridge, handcut by specially trained tomato harvesting technicians with NVQ Level 3 and above Vegetable and Fruit (gentle handling) Qualifications and packed in cardboard cases made from selected organically grown (and fairly traded) Patagonian Tomato Box trees. Every little helps........

[theonlyone]

You are paying a lot of money for a stalk
and the growers make more money as it's
cheaper to harvest them ....another con ...

[tiggerblue10]

I think its because they start to loose their flavour when taken off the vine.

[skyep]

Hi Booldawg!
There is a dfinate difference in taste! Try both & see! xxx

[skyep]

'definate' x

[tiggerblue10]

Lol Skyep.

"lose" not "loose". Lol

[boogieboogie]

Ok this is because tomatoes on the vine prove themselves to be real tomatoes (meaning they are grown from seed) where as the ones without the vine are manufactured in a factory in china from a chemical compound.
So the differnece being, one is a tomatoe and the other is anyones guess.

Personally I wouldn't buy anything other than organic tomatoes because even the vine ones aren't proper tomatoes..

[Booldawg]

They do taste ALOT better IMO. I have grown my own this year for the first time ever as I have a greenhouse. This is yet another sign of growing old :-)

[crisgal]

hey - i'm not old and i'm growing-me-own!

Very funny answer from Kim A !!

I bought a packet t'other day that said "grown for flavour" - what else are they bloody well grown for?!

[SKA]

I though they lastest longer on the vine

[SKA]

*thought

[SKA]

btw I grew some tomatoes two year ago (when I was 19)