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I planted a GMO tomato variety in my backyard garden last summer and the results were the opposite of what I expected.
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fisher.adam28d ago
What did you think would happen? I mean, mine always do great.
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park.abby28d ago
Oh man, that's interesting. I was just reading this article about how some GMO plants are actually made to work best with specific fertilizers or sprays that a big company sells. So in a normal backyard, without that stuff, they might not do as well as the old-fashioned kinds. It's like they're built for a different kind of farming. My neighbor tried a fancy corn once and said the same thing, it just sat there looking sad. Makes you wonder what they're really changing in those seeds.
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Remember my friend who bought those fancy tomato plants from a big box store last spring? Watched them struggle all summer in her raised beds, just kind of wilted and never fruited right. She finally dug one up and the roots were this weird, tight ball, nothing like her heirloom plants. She said it felt like they were waiting for a chemical she wasn't giving them. Totally changed how she buys seeds now.
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