Sprinkling sugar around tomato plants?

 Someone said that tomatoes can be made sweeter by sprinkling a little
sugar around the plants. Would this really work? Would the plants absorb
the sugar and store it in the tomatoes? I'm somewhat dubious.

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Don't know, but sprinkling sugar on the Tomatoes in the sandwich is superb
;-))

Anyone else keen on that one?

Mike


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 "David in Normandy"  wrote ...

The question "why do you want them sweet?" springs to mind. If you do why
not do what an acquaintance does and sprinkle sugar over his salad.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

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Good man! Vegetables do need a degree of natural sweetness, of course;
but I want tomatoes to taste most strongly of tomato, not sugar.
Supermarket ones, needless to say, taste of neither.

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Mike.

 "Mike Lyle"  wrote ..

It's like bought frozen peas, all they taste of is sweet, no pea taste at
all. We leave our peas on the plant until they have proper taste (and lose
some sweetness) and then freeze them ourselves, so much nicer.

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Bob Hobden
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