Description

Everything you need to know to get started or improve your tomato growing skills. A highly practical, hands on workshop covering:

How to choose which tomato varieties to grow
Whether to grow from seed or seedling, in pots, raised beds or directly into soil
When and how to plant and tips for success
Training growth with stakes, cages or string vs free range
Pros and cons of pruning and how to do it
Preventing common problems
Feeding, crop rotation and more.

Participants will pot up and take home an heirloom tomato plant.

Trainer Bio:

With many years working as a primary teacher, community development worker and horticulturalist, Carol combines these three passions by running school garden programs with Cultivating Community and facilitating adult workshops at CERES. Drawing garden wisdom from permaculture principles, conventional horticulture and chats with elderly neighbours, she loves sharing her enthusiasm for everything connected with growing and learning in natural environments. Carol is studying a Master of Urban Horticulture at Melbourne University (Burnley) majoring in urban food production.

What you will learn

Choosing varieties
Garden set-up
Common problems

What you will get

Handouts
Participants will pot up and take home an heirloom tomato plant.

What to bring

Notepad and pen

What to wear

Casual clothes that can get dirty and gardening gloves if you prefer to use your own

Appropriate for

Those wanting to grow the best tomatoes!