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.

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