Tomatoes III: Planting & Cultural Best Practices

This class is the final installment of a series on tomatoes. Each is perfectly timed for what you need to know at that point of the season. In this session, we will pick up at planting out tomatoes into the garden and share best practices in fertilizing, watering, pruning, disease management and storage.

Questions that will be addressed:

• When is the right time to transplant my potted start out into the garden?
• What are the best ways to support my tomato plant?
• How do I grow a tomato plant for better plant health and best tomato flavor?
• How and when do I prune, water and fertilize tomatoes?
• What are the common tomato diseases and disorders? How do I manage them?
• How to best meet weather challenges, environmental problems, and insect pests?
• What will help me get an early harvest?
• How do I maximize the harvest?
• Can tomatoes be stored well? What is the best way to store tomatoes?

This free class requires advanced registration. Recording link will be sent to all who register 2 days following the session. Register online.

Our speaker, Amelia Wilbur, is an Oregon State University Extension Master Gardener, who teaches for the award-winning 10-Minute University™ Program. She and her husband once co-owned a tomato grafting business. They grow a wide variety of vegetables and fruiting plants on their 3.5-acre home garden and annually harvest more than 500 pounds of tomatoes.

*Counts as one hour metro area Master Gardener continuing garden education credit.