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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

The Most Delicious Tomatoes On Earth

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We're back again with Craig LeHoullier, author of Epic Tomatoes and all-around tomato pro! He's grown over 3,500 varieties of tomatoes over the years, so I figured I'd ask him what his favorites were! Learn More:  Craig's Website The Dwarf Tomato Project Buy Craig's Book, Epic Tomatoe email Craig! Keep Growing, Kevin Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Kevin from Epic Gardening here.

0:15.6

We are continuing on with the best of weeks here on the podcast.

0:20.2

Hope you enjoy.

0:22.5

Hello again, everyone.

0:25.2

Welcome back to the show.

0:26.6

This is Tomato Week on the podcast.

0:29.0

I'm here with Craig Luhulear, the NC Tomato Man, and today he's going to select out of

0:35.1

the hundreds and even thousands of different types of tomatoes that he's grown, which he

0:39.7

finds to be the most delicious tomatoes that he has ever grown.

0:44.3

And so if there's anyone to give us the final answer, the final word on a question like

0:49.7

this that is so subjective and there's so many different things to consider, I think

0:53.7

it would be Craig.

0:54.9

And so I'm going to go ahead and stop talking and I'm going to let Craig take it away.

0:58.9

All right, Craig, I know you are the tomato expert.

1:04.9

I would love to hear, I've been experimenting with more unique ones this year, but you know,

1:09.8

from the expert, if I'm growing them this year, or maybe next, maybe I'm planning for

1:13.4

next year, what should I not miss?

1:15.3

What does an absolute must grow?

1:17.7

Sure.

1:18.7

So one of the things Kevin to keep in mind is you could put 100 people in a room and a

1:23.2

tomato and they'll all taste that tomato and find slightly different things about it.

1:27.8

So we all have different taste buds and different perceptions and different preferences.

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