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Tomato Talks & Tips

Let's talk tomatoes! 

Thanks for joining us on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 February for a fascinating range of free online live sessions with Costa Georgiadis, our Community Greening staff, Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens, Grow It Local and the Diggers Club.

If you were not able to join us for the live talks see links below to watch them at your leisure. 

Live Talks

Clive Blazey live from the Diggers Club
Join Clive Blazey as he talks about Diggers’ history in the heirloom seed movement in Australia and why preserving these precious heirlooms are so important.

Saturday 18 Feb, 10am – 11am
 
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Seed Saving Demonstration
Tim Sansom from The Diggers Foundation shares some of the tips and tricks for growing organic heirloom tomatoes including crop health, maximising fruiting and how to save true-to-type seed for years to come. 

Saturday 18 Feb, 2pm – 3pm
 
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Preserving with Grow It Local
Grow It Local presents Fabian Capomolla - The Hungry Gardener. Join Fabian as he teaches you how to make the most of the abundance by preserving the Hungry Gardener way!

Saturday 18 Feb, 3pm – 4pm
 
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Costa live from the Garden
Step behind the scenes at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and join Costa for growing and grafting tips, cool recipes, native bush tomatoes and more with Phil Pettitt and Cliodhna Maguire, Community Greening, and Meredith Kirton, Foundation & Friends.
 
Sunday 19 Feb, 4pm – 5pm
 
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There are also great recipes below 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, how to build a wicking bed and more.

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.
Start growing
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.
Avoid disease
How to build a wicking bed

Learn how to make a wicking bed for your tomato plants.

Find out more

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 

LEARN MORE TOMATO FACTS

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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Growing Friends Plant Sales

For those with a green thumb visit the Growing Friends nursery for a wide range of potted plants propagated from the Garden's living collection.


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