259 The 2023 Tomato Preview Show!

It must be spring, and time for our annual tomato preview show! Today a couple of tomato heads, nursery owner Don Shor and myself, talk about growing tomatoes. Topics include: • The winning and losing tomato varieties of 2022 (remember, all gardening is local) 1:38 • Which tomato varieties we will be planting in 2023, varieties that are old and new. 9:31 • Advice for the first time tomato grower: Start Small. 20:25 • Thwarting Summer Diseases of tomatoes. 35:41 • Don’t plant your tomatoes too...

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Tips for beginning and experienced gardeners. New episodes arrive every Friday. Fred Hoffman has been a U.C. Certified Master Gardener since 1982 and writes a weekly garden column for the Lodi News-Sentinel in Lodi, CA. A four-decade fixture in Sacramento radio, he hosted three radio shows for Northern California gardeners and farmers: The KFBK Garden Show, Get Growing with Farmer Fred, and the KSTE Farm Hour. Episode Website: https://gardenbasics.net