Tomato Festival Sydney 2021

The Tomato Festival Sydney 2021 is going virtual on 20 and 21 February!

Unfortunately we’re not able to host the Festival at the Garden this year but we have fabulous live free sessions with the Festival Ambassador Costa Georgiadis, Grow it Local and the Diggers Club. There are also great recipes from award winning and Executive Chef of the Longest Tomato Lunch - Chef Luca Ciano, great tips on growing tomatoes, interesting tomato facts, information about the different heirloom varieties and a look back at last year’s Festival. We hope you enjoy this small taste of the Festival and look forward to welcoming you back to the Garden in 2022.

Virtual events

Costa live from the Garden

Go behind the scenes with Costa in the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney’s nursery for tips and tricks on growing tomatoes. You can still watch the full event by clicking through to the event page.

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Success with Heirloom Seeds

Coming live from her own patch, Jac will also share the trials and tribulations of her own season and offer some simple how to’s on seed sowing and seed saving.

You can now stream the full event from our event page.

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Recipes: Fresh, Seasonal & Simple

Who knew a fruit holding 95% of water could have so much flavour? Delicious and simple recipes from Chef Luca Ciano.

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How to grow tomatoes

Saving and storing seeds

There is nothing quite like the taste of a homegrown tomato. Check out these tips on saving seeds and growing your own at home.

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Top tips from the Diggers Club

There is nothing like the taste of home grown tomatoes, warm and fragrant off the vine! When you plant heirloom tomatoes you become part of a link in a chain that stretches back for generations.

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Community Greening tips for disease free tomatoes

Tomatoes are susceptible to disease and we've got handy tips to ensure you grow healthy and tasty fruit.

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Interesting things about tomatoes

Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) are members of the Solanaceae or Nightshade family of plants.

This is a large worldwide family with over 90 genera and 2500 species containing not only tomatoes but many other of our most important food plants

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Heirloom tomato varieties

The Diggers Club is the home of heirloom tomatoes. Their varieties are tops in taste and yield.

From bite sized cherries for salads to whoppers for the biggest of hamburger buns, they have a tomato for every taste bud.

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