12/21/2025
We'll be talking about these long-keeper tomatoes this season...
Tomatomania FB connects tomato fanatics around the country and our team hosts unique pop up seedling sales across the west in the springtime! Grow with us!
We celebrate growing tomatoes, eating tomatoes and everything else about America's favorite garden vegetable (or fruit if you're a purist!). Tomatomania started in the early 90s at Hortus, a trendsetting Pasadena nursery. I helped build the event while working there. After the nursery closed I bought the trademark and started to produce events outside that site. Now almost exclusively a CA event,
12/21/2025
We'll be talking about these long-keeper tomatoes this season...
11/28/2025
A new season...๐ ๐
11/21/2025
can be as well. We love stocking the store up for the season. And we even have !
https://tomatomania.com/christmas-shop/
Enjoy this rich time of year while The Garden rests a bit.!
11/19/2025
This year has been a marathon, not a sprint.
12 to 15 plants in our upper Valley test garden are still producing. The plants & the fruit don't look amazing, (as it should b๏ฟผe), but it's still happening!
I picked Green Giant today because it's very hard to tell when this one is ripe. ๏ฟผ This one doesn't flush yellow when it's ready like many of the other greens.
So I will make some green tomato salsa this afternoon and not wait for it to soften!
11/10/2025
Worms are super happy in my tomato garden space right now!
10/28/2025
Working on the re-print of my 2016 book. May just have it ready for the spring...
10/24/2025
Obsessed with a different orb at the moment...๐๐ But soon can release spring dates for 'maniacs. Stay tuned.
10/18/2025
Pumpkins! Our event hosts certainly know how to celebrate the fall season! Shout out to and !
10/16/2025
It's !
10/12/2025
Tomatoes and morning. โค๏ธโค๏ธ๐ ๐
10/08/2025
Loving this October Cowboy. ๐๐๐ ๐
10/06/2025
We're grateful for our unorthodox beginnings, all of our history and for all of you.
Thanks for the good times and for keeping๏ฟผ us on the road for so many years. We're looking forward to 2026 and the schedule is now coming together!
This TImes Article was one of the crucial pieces that helped us launch this tomato roadshow in 2001. It's been a good 25 years. ๐๐๐
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