Tomatomania Time – the stuff of tomato dreams

When you are planting four or five 15 gallon containers it’s a lot of soil. But this year I couldn’t wait to get my Tomatomania fix so I threw a couple of plants in their tidy homes in advance of the rains. But those were just regular varieties on offer at my local hardware/garden shop. I knew that a few weeks later I could go to a Tomatomania event and take my time to browse the seemingly unlimited tomato varieties to fill in my tomato dreams for the summer.

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‘Tomatomania’ brings hundreds of rare varieties to San Diego County this weekend

For Scott Daigre, it all started with a grandfather and a row of tomatoes.

“I just wanted to have a garden like my grandpa,” said Daigre, the Ojai-based producer and owner of Tomatomania, a traveling tomato plant sale that has grown into one of the most celebrated horticultural events in the country.

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How to grow your best tomato

“What you enjoy fresh and warm from your garden is so markedly different from what you can buy in the store,” says Scott Daigre, a California-based gardener and producer of “Tomatomania!” billed as the world’s largest tomato seedling sale. “And what a great-looking garden prize. Yeah, cucumbers are cool, but a big fat heirloom tomato? That’s sexy.”

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Tomatomania! Tomato season is ripe around the corner

Curious about growing your own tomatoes but don’t know where to start?

Tomatomania is the place for you! The annual event will be popping up at different plant nurseries throughout SoCal, where you can learn about different tomato varieties and what grows best in your micro-climate, plus get your hands on rare heirloom seedlings.

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Tomato lovers, rejoice. Tomatomania! is back

Have your winter salads of greens and more greens gotten so dull that you’ve stooped to buying tasteless hot-house tomatoes just to add a little color to your plate?

Help is on the way. Tomatomania! is gearing up for 2022 with 200-plus varieties of tomatoes and nearly 100 types of peppers, on sale starting Feb. 25 at Roger’s Gardens in Corona del Mar.

Read More at The LA Times