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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Talking Tomatoes With The Old Farmer’s Almanac

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Tomatoes are a gateway vegetable for new gardeners. That’s because they’re easy to grow, but require care techniques that can be applied to other veggies. In this episode, Editor of the Famer’s Almanac, Carol Connare covers the ins and outs of tomato cultivation.Learn More: 10 Things You Should Know Before Growing Tomatoes

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Carol Connare is the editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac, an annual publication devoted to growing and knowing. She is the 14th editor in the publication's history and only the second woman to hold the post. She is an avid gardener of flowers, herbs, and vegetables.
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0:00.0

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0:28.1

See in store for T's and C's. We're talking tomatoes today.

0:34.0

We're talking tomatoes today with Carol Conair of the old farmers almanac.

0:48.0

Tomatoes is a topic, Carol, I think everyone has an opinion on, everyone has a hot take,

0:52.4

and everyone has their own flavors, literally, and

0:55.9

also styles of tomatoes that they like to grow.

0:58.5

So I kind of am curious, if you have a tomato hot take, like do you have something that you think about growing tomatoes or a particular variety that you just feel very passionately about?

1:08.0

Oh, I'm all about the heirlooms. I love heirloom varieties. I think they do better. You know, I feel like I can grow them.

1:16.0

I just put a ton of those kinds of varieties in my garden personally.

1:21.0

But like you said, I think that people are really all about the taste, but I also really like the taste. I like that they add, they're kind of got their tougher texture, you know, I like roasting them, I like doing roasted sauces with them. So to me that's been the most successful

1:36.0

tomato growing that I've had because I think that you know they're prone to that leaf rod and all

1:41.9

the rest but those seem to do really well the

1:44.4

airlums seem to be a little hardier on my end of things.

1:47.0

Nice nice yeah I would say I used to grow my tomatoes for aesthetic like I'd grow a

1:52.4

beautiful purple tomato

1:54.2

or like, you know, a sort of like yellow purple combo,

1:59.4

etc.

2:00.2

I still do.

2:00.9

I mean, there's still maybe one or two,

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