36: Expert Advice on Tomatoes -- Interview with Mike at White Harvest Seed Co. Pt. 2
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In growing tomatoes, it's always good to have an expert's advice on-hand. That's why when I talked with Mike at the White Harvest Seed Company, I picked his brain on everything tomatoes -- from which varieties to choose to how to deal with mid-season pests and diseases.
In this episode of the Beginner's Garden Podcast, Mike and I talk about:
- favorite tomato varieties
- top 3 recommendations for growing successful tomatoes
- most common pests & diseases and how to deal with them
Grab all the show notes at http://journeywithjill.net/2018/01/expert-advice-growing-tomatoes/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. |
| 0:31.8 | If you listened to last week's episode, you heard some great advice on growing seeds from Mike |
| 0:37.4 | at the White Harvest Seed |
| 0:38.6 | Company. And today we're going to hear more from Mike's wealth of knowledge. And in today's |
| 0:43.8 | episode, we're going to talk all about tomatoes. I know right now I'm trying to decide which |
| 0:49.9 | tomato varieties I'm going to grow this season. Besides my trusty romas that I use for canning, I'd like to venture out and try one or two |
| 0:57.8 | I've never tried before. |
| 0:59.5 | But they all seem to blur together when I'm searching through the seed catalogs. |
| 1:04.1 | That's why I couldn't wait to pick Mike's brain on not only some of his favorites, but also |
| 1:10.1 | which varieties would be suited for particular climates, |
| 1:13.3 | like my hot and human one. But besides sharing his favorite seed varieties with us, he's also |
| 1:19.8 | going to give us his top three recommendations for growing tomatoes and will discuss the most |
| 1:25.9 | common pests and diseases and his recommendations for |
| 1:29.1 | dealing with them. Then at the end he's going to chat with us on some new seed varieties |
| 1:34.0 | he's particularly excited about this year. In this interview Mike will be throwing out a |
| 1:39.8 | lot of information and don't worry about grabbing a pencil to write down that one tomato variety |
| 1:44.9 | that picks your interest. I'll have them all as well as links to the ones he talks about in the |
| 1:50.0 | show notes at journey withjill.net slash podcast. And stick around because at the very end he talks |
| 1:57.9 | about where he's going to be around the U.S. this spring. He might be coming |
| 2:01.7 | to a location near you and you'll have to stop by and say hi. So let's pick up with my conversation |
| 2:07.7 | with Mike. All right Mike. Let's go back to tomatoes and let's talk basics of slicing tomatoes. What is your favorite variety that you |
| 2:20.2 | recommend to people? Well, I'll answer that in two different ways. My favorite slicing tomatoes |
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