This is where I'd usually make the "Tomatoes are cultural appropriation of indigenous South American produce" joke but what's going on in Europe is no laughing matter.
Not at all
From aftonbladet.se via Fresh Plaza, September 1:
Nordic Greens, one of the largest tomato growers in both Denmark and Sweden, has announced that they will not grow any tomatoes during winter in their Sweden-based cultivation because of the skyrocketing electricity prices. "We have 5 hectares of lit cultivation," Mads Pedersen, CEO of the company, says. "And we had to take that out because electricity prices are just ridiculous. We wouldn't have been able to pay for the increased cost. That's why we decided to skip this cycle."
The company has around 160,000 square meters of greenhouses, of which 20,000 are equipped with LED lighting that is on 18 hours a day. Usually, between 30 and 40 tonnes of tomatoes are grown every week during the winter....
....MUCH MORE
If interested see Vaclav Smil: "How Much Energy Does It Take to Grow a Tomato?" for some of the physics.
