April is Tomato Time! Join us as our own veggie expert Dan Alexander, shares tips and tricks for a successful tomato growing season and harvest. Dan will talk about soil amendments, tomato varieties, fertilizer, watering, and he’ll troubleshoot solutions for the most common tomato growing challenges. A perfect class for all levels of tomato gardeners.
Outline:
- Tomato history and botany
- Basic concepts
- What tomatoes like
- What tomatoes dislike
- How to plant
- In ground
- In containers
- Fertilizing
- Grafted tomatoes
- Supports
- Pests and Diseases
- Varieties for different microclimates
Resources
- Pam Peirce, Golden Gate Gardening
- Mel Barthalomew, All New Square Foot Gardening
For Growing Tomatoes
- Sloat Organic Potting Soil
- Sloat Compost
- Loam Builder
- Recipe 420
- EB Stone Tomato/Vegetable Fertilizer
- Monterey Complete Disease Control
- Monterey BT
- Fish fertilizer
- Monterey Flori-Cal spray
- Tomato cages
- Packages of bamboo stakes and other 4-6” small diameter stakes
- One-gallon grower pots or equivalent
- ½ barrels, large fiber pots, 15/20 gallon fabric pots 15-gallon grower pots
- Trowel, gloves
