In my experience root crops take more effort and are hard to get to a size equivalent to store bought. It’s probably my techniques but I am a lazy gardener. While silver beet grows better for me than commercial crop.
With tomatoes I find bigger varieties are tasty targets for birds and other pests while smaller ones escape their notice and also crop over a longer period. Plus they self seed better and seem more resistant to pests. Speaking of which I once bought tomato seedlings from Bunnings but they had purple leaf curl virus which recurred the next year so I had to go without for some years to fix that. Never again.
Recently I got to experience the true power of a real allergy attack. I mowed a paddock of long grass that hadn’t been touched in decades. Wearing a 95 mask and goggles but they were those workshop goggles with breather holes. Showered after but for the next 2 weeks it was the torments of the damned. Patches on my face, wrists, back of the neck, shins at top of my socks, anywhere straps or sleeves rubbed the dust into my skin, turned into suppurating landscapes of itch. Cetrizine slowly beat it back but I don’t like to fiddle with my immune system. Next time I’ll wear a Hazmat coverall like you do when stripping fibro off a building.