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Get ready for a juicy conversation! This week on Ojai Talk of the Town, we welcome Scott Daigre, founder of Tomatomania!, the country's largest heirloom and hybrid tomato seedling sale. What started in the 1990s as a small nursery event has blossomed into a can't-miss springtime tradition across Southern California, with dozens of locations offering an incredible variety of tomato plants, expert advice, and all the inspiration you need for your garden and kitchen.Scott shares the origins of Tomatomania and what makes tomatoes so endlessly fascinating. We dig into the best growing tips, surprising heirloom varieties, and even a few favorite ways to enjoy summer's most beloved fruit. Whether you're a seasoned gardener or a curious newbie, this episode is ripe with insights and stories you won't want to miss!
This week's guest, Scott Daigre is an avid gardener, landscape designer, and founder of the Popular "Tomatomania," an annual seedling sale in California. Scott and Jean Garbee have written Tomatomania! A Fresh Approach to Celebrating Tomatoes in the Garden and in the Kitchen. It is a beautiful and fun guide to growing, preparing, and cooking tomatoes.For both beginners and seasoned gardeners, Scott talks with us about the tomato varieties that will be available for sale at Tomatomania events along with the new varieties that will be offered this year along with info on the "Tomato of the Year".Resource Links Mentioned During The Show: https://tomatomania.com/ https://www.fertilome.com/Join our gardening podcast and radio show Garden America LIVE every Saturday from 8-10 AM Pacific Time on Facebook. Tune in to ask questions, converse with fellow gardeners, or just enjoy the show.Listen to all of our gardening podcasts here: https://www.gardenamerica.com/garden-...WEBSITE: https://www.gardenamerica.com/FACEBOOK: / gardenamericashow INSTAGRAM: / gardenamericaradioshow TWITTER: / gardenliferadio TIKTOK: / gardenamerica Transcending surface-level tips, Garden America explores the science and culture that yield true growing experiences. Gardening questions on your mind? Drop us a line or tune in daily for hands-on advice, biological breakthroughs, and trusted product info from our gardening gurus. Garden America is truly your current trends gardening experience. Look no further for garden knowledge, garden tools, garden accessories, unique garden plants never seen before & more.
GUEST: Scott Daigre; HOSTS: Bryan Main, Tiger Palafox, and John Bagnascohttps://www.gardenamerica.com/Scott Daigre is an avid gardener, landscape designer, and founder of the Popular "Tomatomania," an annual seedling sale in California. Scott and Jean Garbee have written Tomatomania! A Fresh Approach to Celebrating Tomatoes in the Garden and in the Kitchen. It's a beautiful and fun guide to growing, preparing, and cooking tomatoes. For both beginners and seasoned gardeners, Scott will be giving us a recap of this year's tomato season and a preview of what to look forward to next season. Resource Links Mentioned During The Show: https://www.amazon.com/Tomatomania-Ap... https://www.gardenamerica.com/tropica... https://www.gardenamerica.com/garden-... Join Garden America LIVE every Saturday from 8-10 AM Pacific Time. Tune in to ask questions, converse with fellow gardeners or just enjoy the show.WEBSITE: https://www.gardenamerica.com/ FACEBOOK: / gardenamericashow INSTAGRAM: / gardenamericaradioshow TWITTER: / gardenliferadio TIKTOK: / gardenamerica Transcending surface-level tips, Garden America explores the science and culture that yield true growing experiences. Gardening questions on your mind? Drop us a line or tune in daily for hands-on advice, biological breakthroughs, and trusted product info from our gardening gurus. Garden America is truly your current trends gardening experience. Look no further for garden knowledge, garden tools, garden accessories, unique garden plants never seen before & more.https://www.youtube.com/@GardenAmericaRadioShowJoin Garden America LIVE in Facebook every Saturday from 8-10 AM Pacific Time.Tune in to ask questions, converse with fellow gardeners or just enjoy the show.Go to https://www.facebook.com/gardenamericashow/ to watch via Facebook Live.Garden America can also be heard on your local radio stations via the Biz Talk Radio network every Saturday from 8 AM -10 AM Pacific (11 AM-1 PM Eastern Time) athttps://biztalkradio.com.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3240046/advertisement
“I'm after the charm of tomatoes. I'm after the history of tomatoes. Just obviously, appeal and taste and all of that. But if I can tie it up all in one bundle, that's what I wanna choose.” Tomatoes are a nearly universal plant—native to South America, they now flourish on every continent except Antarctica. Tomatoes have been bred, often by home gardeners, for their looks, flavors, and suitability for diverse climates. This has resulted in thousands of varieties of heirloom tomatoes, meaning tomatoes that can be grown from seed. These plants carry stories of exploration and innovation, and they can also teach important lessons about gardening and our connection to food. Every year, garden designer Scott Daigre celebrates heirloom tomatoes through his Tomatomania! pop-up events, which bring hundreds of varieties of tomato seedlings to Southern California gardeners. In this episode, Daigre explains what heirloom tomatoes are, why people love them, and how to grow them in your garden. For images, transcripts, and more, visit https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/the-art-of-gardening-tomatomania/ or http://www.getty.edu/podcasts
Paul meets with Scott Daigre from Tomatomania to talk about their 150+ hybrid and heirloom tomato varieties, how the seasonal celebration events came to be, and tips for growing your own favorite garden vegetable.
Tomatomania! is back and Scott Daigre joins us to discuss this fascinating fruit and its many uses and importance in the culinary world. After a pandemic hiatus, Daigre is producing 13 events this year, which are more than just a chance to find rare breeds and learn growing techniques and advice, they take on a festival-like atmosphere. Daigre's interest in gardening began when he was very little on his grandfather's farm in southern Louisiana, and continued even through his corporate career in marketing, until he followed his passion to a job as a nurseryman, then taking over the helm of Tomatomania! nearly 15 years ago. He is a regular on Evan Kleiman's popular KCRW radio show, "Good Food," and the author of "Tomatomania!," a lavishly illustrated book full of his insights and advice on this versatile fruit. We also talk about how he came to find and love Ojai, our climate and its impact on growing tomatoes, as well as the history of tomatoes from the Incans and Aztecs to the present day. He talks about preserving tomatoes, both by canning but also freezing and the uses of tomato water. We did not talk about Baffin Island, the lost wax method of jewelry making or Summit restaurants burgers.
It’s spring in the northern hemisphere (even though snow is still making visitations to parts of North American right now), and gardeners across the hemisphere are itching to get started with their summer vegetable gardens. That age-old and annual question of “when warm summer crops can safely be planted outside" is already high on peoples' lists of garden excitements and anxieties. Cultivating Place is joined this week by the leader of an event and author of a book both known as TOMATOMANIA. Scott Daigre is the owner of PowerPlant Garden Design in Ojai California, and he is a dedicated home gardener and self-proclaimed tomatomaniac. It's earth week and among the garden’s earthiest pleasures are these succulent summer fruits. Scott joins us from his home and trial garden in Ojaiwhere he is deep into the planning for the warm season vegetable garden and all her delights. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com.
Host Evan Kleiman knows her pasta. This week on Good Food, she talks to Dan Pashman, who she has been advising on his quest to engineer a brand new pasta shape. Scott Daigre of Tomatomania! is back with his annual seedling sale just in time for spring. Gillian Ferguson talks turnips at the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market. Professor Alex Susskind discusses how restaurants are embracing operations and learning to shift costs to the consumer. Michelin-starred chef Dave Beran of Pasjoli shares how his menu shifted to takeout for this week’s edition of “In the Weeds.” Finally, J. Kenji López-Alt provides a science lesson on what happens when water boils.
PEOPLE! All your tomato questions get answered in the episode! Scott Daigre is the producer behind Tomatomania, the world's largest tomato seedling sale. In this fun and fast-moving conversation, Scott schools Reed on the basics to his method of growing amazing-tasting and bountiful tomatoes in your home garden. He also gives some history into how Tomatomania has grown from a passion project into a thriving business. Plus, we chat a bit about how growing tomatoes brings people together and helps us create a sense of history and community. So much tomato talk in this episode!!! Buy Scott's excellent Tomatomania book!!! Give Guy Clark's classic song Homegrown Tomatoes a listen. Get even more tomato talk at tomatomania.com and be sure follow the Tomatomania Instagram and Facebook feeds. Reed Fish is @tallreedfish on Instagram and @reedfish on Twitter. Follow Workin' It wherever you get your social media: @workinitpod on Instagram and Facebook. Also, what the hell, might as well set your homepage to workinitpod.com, too. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reed-fish/message
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I interview author Scott Daigre about his new book "Tomatomania!" Hear his tips on planting, caring for, and of course eating our favorite summer gem. Show Notes: http://www.thesexyvegan.com/home/tomato
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Scott Daigre, author of "Tomatomania: A Fresh Approach to Celebrating Tomatoes in the Garden and in the Kitchen," shares tips and tricks for growing, cooking with, and eating tomatoes. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/1cUR3mc
Is it spring yet?! This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is optimistically talking spring vegetable gardens, specifically tomatoes, with “tomatomaniac” Scott Daigre. Every year, Scott hosts TomatoMania!, a traveling pop-up sale of hundreds of heirloom and hybrid tomato seedlings and has also recently released the new book “Tomatomania!: A Fresh Approach to Celebrating Tomatoes in the Garden and in the Kitchen.” In the book, Scott provides a peek into his Ojai, California, tomato patch and details a “reality gardening” approach to growing the world’s favorite summer treat. Tomatomania! walks readers through every step of the tomato gardening process, from the earliest planning stages to those final satisfying kitchen table moments of the season. Scott previews what to expect out of this year’s TomatoMania! event and leads an interesting discussion on tomato varieties and the ‘breeding’ process. Tune in and become a ‘maniac along with Cathy! This program was brought to you by the Tabard Inn. “Tomatoes are a huge springboard for the spring garden and for people in the growing season.” [3:20] “The book combines all the information and know how that how we’ve gained from all these years, so it celebrates tomatoes!” [19:39] —Scott Daigre on Eat Your Words