YouTube: Tomato Planting Tips
In our latest YouTube video, Christy share 6 tomato planting tips that will get your garden off to a great start this season.
YouTube: Colorful Tomatoes to Grow in 2021
We all have limited space for tomatoes, and given the abundance of options (there are more than 600 varieties of heirloom tomatoes alone!) deciding which to grow can be like choosing a favorite child. In this video we share our selection of colorful tomatoes that we are growing here at Gardenerd. Tomatoes come in all shapes and colors, and flavors that range from tart to super sweet. We choose paste/plum, cherry, beefsteak, and salad sized tomatoes for variety, color, and…
Christy with Scott Daigre, producer of TomatoMania.
Podcast: Tomato Troubles with Scott Daigre of TomatoMania
In our latest podcast we bring back Scott Daigre of TomatoMania for a mid-season check in on tomatoes. We chat about tomato troubles and how to manage them in your summer garden. Read all about it on the Gardenerd Blog.
Tomato blossoms turn brown and drop instead of setting fruit.
Ask Gardenerd: Tomato Blossoms Not Fruiting
A question came in from Paula about tomato blossoms not fruiting. We tackle the question with our favorite TomatoManiac, Scott Daigre.
Yvonne Savio has been gardening her entire life and she shares her best tips on today's Podcast.
Podcast: Tomato Tips with Yvonne Savio
We had to cancel all the classes at TomatoMania this year, including Yvonne Savio's talk on tomato transplanting. But we recorded an podcast with her this week over the phone to bring you some great tomato tips in time for spring planting
Find Cool Tomatoes in our latest YouTube video.
YouTube: Cool Tomatoes to Grow in 2020
We take a tour of TomatoMania at Tapia Brothers Farm Stand in Encino, CA this week for a look at the most beautiful, coolest tomatoes to grow in 2020. It's like choosing a favorite child, but you know you have one. Maybe these will enter your good graces in the coming season.
Prune dead and diseased tomato foliage
Ask Gardenerd: Lumpy Tomato Roots, Root Nematodes
A timely question came in to Ask Gardenerd this week from Catherine: "My garden went gangbusters this year but I noticed...the roots of all plants (4 tomatoes and 2 cucumber plants) were bumpy, like they had grown lumps all over. I read something about 'root nematodes' but the link wasn't very informative about what causes this, or if it is a pest or an organic condition, if I need to treat the soil before planting anything new, etc. Any thoughts…
Pomodorino del Piennolo del Vesuvio (hanging bundles of southern Italian tomatoes) on display.
Throw a Tomato Tasting Party!
I recently attended the Ocean View Farms tomato tasting celebration 2019 and ate my way through more than 70 varieties of tomatoes to help determine the best of the best.
Ms. Tomato poses with Christy at TomatoMania 2019 at Descanso Gardens.
YouTube: Choose the Right Tomato – TomatoMania Walk-Through
Our latest YouTube video was shot at a TomatoMania event at Descanso Gardens. Christy browses more than 200 varieties of tomato plants to suggests some of her favorites for this year's garden.
A bounty of tomatoes including Michael Pollen (green pear), Roman Candle (yellow roma), Sunrise Bumble Bee (striped cherry), and Green Cherokee (green beefsteak).
Things to Do with Tomatoes
If we're lucky as gardeners, we arrive at mid-summer with a burden of "too many" tomatoes. There is no such thing, really, but there is an urgency about what to do with them before they spoil in the summer heat. Here are some of our favorite recipes to enjoy, can, and use up your tomato harvest. A bounty of tomatoes including Michael Pollen (green pear), Roman Candle (yellow roma), Sunrise Bumble Bee (striped cherry), and Green Cherokee (green beefsteak). Tomato…