This revelation comes courtesy of a mid-progress taste check on a marinara sauce made with homegrown tomatoes. It's important for you to know about the tomatoes' origins because it explains my surprise at discovering that the sauce was missing its typical sweetness, the main reason to grow your own tomatoes in the first place.
Unable to figure out how to amend this problem, my husband asked, "Did you add sugar? It's supposed to have sugar." I thought he was joking but, no, he was dead serious.
