Art of Growing Tomates

Updated 04/2025

This class teaches participants how to choose the right tomato varieties, prepare their garden, and care for tomatoes throughout the season. Topics include seed starting, transplanting, watering, fertilizing, pest management, and harvesting. It also covers short-term storage and preservation methods like canning, freezing, and drying. This class topic is part of the Local Foods priority of the Master Gardener program.

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Class Handouts

• Slide Presentation (Slide print-out)

• Class Handout

Related Handouts

• Growing Terrific Tomatoes in Wisconsin (University of Wisconsin Extension)

• Tomato Disorders: Early blight and Septoria leaf spot (University of Wisconsin Extension)

• Let’s Preserve Tomatoes (Purdue Extension)

• Pruning Tomato Plants (UNH Cooperative Extension)

Online Resources

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• How to Grow Productive Tomatoes (University of Minnesota Extension; Ramsey County Master Gardeners)

• Growing tomatoes in home gardens (University of Minnesota Extension)

• Canning tomatoes: whole, half and juice (University of Minnesota Extension)

• Tomato disorders (University of Minnesota Extension)

• Tomato viruses (University of Minnesota Extension)

• Growing Tomatoes (Cornell Cooperative Extension)

• Growing Tomatoes in the Home Garden (Ohio State University Extension)

Videos

• How to Prune Tomatoes for Maximum Yield and Plant Health (Epic Gardening)

• How to Prune Tomato Plants (Fine Gardening)