7 Tomato Growing Tips
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
We’re in full tomato season, so who better to have on than Margaret Roach to give us some timeless tomato tips.
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Margaret Roach is a liifelong organic gardener and the founder of A Way to Garden, as well as the newly re-released book A Way to Garden.
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having been the first to grow and name the Cherokee purple tomato in 1990! Today we'll talk about
the difference between heirloom and hybrid tomatoes. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. We are on day |
| 0:05.8 | two of this week with Margaret Roach, Lifelong Organic Gardner. She's the founder of |
| 0:10.6 | A Way to Garden, which is the name of her website, her podcast, and actually |
| 0:14.5 | the newly re-released book, which, surprise surprise, we're going to be giving away a copy of |
| 0:20.0 | to listeners of the podcast. |
| 0:21.4 | So the way to enter is to review the Epic Gardening. to |
| 0:23.0 | the listeners of the podcast. So the way to enter is to review the epic gardening |
| 0:24.9 | podcast on iTunes and then just type in a way to garden |
| 0:29.4 | along with your review. So I know that you're entering, entering right and then we'll go ahead and |
| 0:34.2 | draw it at the end of the week so stay tuned for that but today with Margaret I |
| 0:38.7 | thought we would talk about a section of her book it's called 13 things about |
| 0:41.8 | growing tomatoes we might not cover all 13, but |
| 0:44.6 | Margaret I thought that very timely right now as people are listening in July and also |
| 0:49.1 | just tomatoes. You can't go wrong and people are always wanting tips so I thought maybe we could |
| 0:53.3 | start out with some of the most important ones and what I was thinking was |
| 0:57.5 | starting with the locally raised seedlings or just starting your own. Yeah you know it |
| 1:02.4 | was really Tom Stearns of high mowing organic seeds who kind of turned me |
| 1:06.6 | on to this kind of thinking a number of years ago. |
| 1:10.6 | He's someone I really admire and has grown a lot of tomatoes one of his favorite things and and he was trying to explain to me how |
| 1:19.0 | For a couple of reasons that's important, but even if you're not buying a seedling even if you're just |
| 1:23.8 | buying seeds to make sure you're matching the right variety for your to your climate |
| 1:31.3 | your kind of growing season conditions to get the best possible tomato with the best |
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