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by moron4hire 1690 days ago
Also, maybe it's just me, but tomato plants smell bad. Personally, I can barely stand to be around even one plant, let alone a small garden of them. Smell is one of the most evocotive senses. A bad smell is almost always a sign of danger.
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I absolutely love the smell of tomato plants. My grandfather used to grow them in large green houses. Now when I smell a tomato plant it reminds me of walking into those hot hunting greenhouses and being surrounded by ripe tomatoes everywhere
I like it too, I tend to get vine tomatoes because they smell of the plants a little bit :)
I don't have the same problem with the smell, but maybe if enough people thought it smelled bad everybody else would think to avoid it.
That allmost sounds like a evolutionary survival strategy.
Don’t cannabis plants stink? People have been cultivating them forever.