On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:58:59 -0700, Billy
wrote:

In article ,
Boron Elgar wrote:

So I planted some Mortgage Lifter tomatoes this year. The plants grew
very well, were most prolific in flowering, setting and ripening of
fruit.

The only problem is that the tomatoes are not wonderful. They look
fabulous. They would make ideal magazine shots or state fair entries,
but they are, at least to me, underweight for their size and have no
depth of flavor whatsoever.

I have only two full size varieties growing this year (many cherry,
pear, patios, etc, as they bear and ripen earlier here), the MLs and
some identified only as "heirloom tomato" on the labeling, that latter
having been bought as a lark from a reduced rack at the local grocery
store.

I wish I knew what the "heirloom tomato" really was as it has produced
fruit that is everything that exemplifies a home grown tomato with
indescribably delicious complexity of taste.

It's fun gardening.

Boron

Did you reduce watering when the fruit started to set? Over watering can
reduce flavor.

I have been growing tomatoes for over a quarter of a century and have
the methodology down pat. On the contrary...these fruits were
underweight for their size. Were this reduction in flavor true to
form, of course, I'd notice a comparable reduction in all varieties
that I grew.

I surely cannot control the weather, but I've other tomatoes in the
same bed as the ML and they are fine. Last year all the tomatoes in
that bed were sweeter, but alas, they were all volunteers from the
compost. They were my clue indicating that particular flower bed
should be converted to a tomato patch.

Boron