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My mom used to work at the commissary on a military base. For a while, they were letting her take home all of the produce that they throw out due to age. She was putting it in her compost pile. My parents said that they got better tomatoes out of the plants that grew out of the compost pile than the plants in their garden (FL, soil that was basically all sand other than the compost that they mixed in).

What's interesting, is that I've heard/read that for a lot of fruits (like avocados for one) if you grow a plant from a seed you may not get a plant that produces fruit like the one that you ate. I'm guessing tomatoes aren't like that.