The Dwarf Tomato Breeding Project

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Craig’s Dwarf Tomato Breeding Project has been going strong for the last 18 years. Fervor about this project spread largely through word of mouth. He and other gardeners involved in the project have developed some of the coolest dwarf cultivars out there in conjunction with the Open Source Seed Initiative. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3s8Sxp2 Book collection page: https://growepic.co/3qusUPh EG homesteading book: https://growepic.co/44f57Ar Learn More: 38 Types Of Tomatoes For Glorious Garden Success Connect With Craig LeHoullier: Craig LeHoullier, PhD (chemistry), advisor for tomatoes to the Seed Savers Exchange, co-leader of the Dwarf Tomato Breeding Project, author of Epic Tomatoes and Growing Vegetables in Strawbales (Storey publishing), approaching his 40th year of gardening. Instagram Website YouTube Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you have ever wondered how to grow any tomato you want in a small space, I mean I
0:08.9	grew up growing in a small space and didn't really have a lot of opportunity to grow these
0:12.0	big indeterminate monsters that I have these days, well this episode I think will be very
0:16.7	interesting.
0:17.7	We have Craig Luhull here back on the show and he is the co-leader of the Dwarf Tomato
0:22.0	Reading Project which we did talk about many years ago Craig but I'm assuming it's
0:25.5	come a long way but for those who didn't listen what is the Dwarf Tomato Project?
0:31.5	So basically the Dwarf Tomato Project was born from a question that I got from so many
0:36.4	customers when I was selling seedlings and it hit a peak in 2004.
0:40.7	What have you got that tastes great has the flavor range and the colors and the sizes
0:45.6	of heirlooms but I don't have to climb a ladder to pick it or figure out what it's doing
0:50.3	in my yard because it's totally out of control.
0:52.4	I'm on a patio or a deck or a driveway so Patrina and I met in Garden Web a website that
1:00.9	we used to use just to chat gardening and we put together a project where she would cross
1:06.0	really delicious indeterminates with the very few known dwarf varieties at the time and
1:11.0	dwarfs are many people don't understand what a Dwarf Tomato is and it's not dwarf and fruit
1:15.8	size.
1:16.8	It's dwarf and growth habit.
1:18.8	How I think of them is they will grow half at half of the vertical rate as you're indeterminate.
1:24.8	So if you end up with an eight foot cherry key purple at the end of your season your corresponding
1:29.0	dwarf will be about four feet tall given some slight variations between varieties based
1:34.5	on the parents and your weather that year.
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