The taste of a homegrown
tomato right off the vine is outrageously delicious. We want to help you grow award winning tomatoes this summer... read below for planting and care instructions...plus recipes you'll want to hold on to!
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Plant tomato sauce!
You, yes, YOU can plant a garden based on your love for tomato sauce made from garden fresh tomatoes and herbs. Click the planting plan to the left or HERE for a printable planting plan (say that fast 3 times!) and shopping list. Click HERE for a fabulous tomato sauce recipe from the garden. Enjoy!
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Growing tips:
1. Amend your soil with organic matter such as Sloat Loam builder, Agricultural Lime and fertilize with E.B. Stone Sure Start for new transplants. Use E.B. Stone Tomato & Vegetable Food to feed them throughout the season.
2. Stake or cage tomatoes early and guide new growth to maximize production and prevent fruit damage.
Read complete planting and care instructions here.
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Make a hanging tomato basket
Hanging baskets are easy to care for! Stuffed full of herbs and vegetables,
they offer beauty and fragrance as well as ingredients for salads and
stir-fries.
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Click above image to print coupon
for a FREE 4" Tomato plant!
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Tomato varieties for cool weather:
Jetsetter
Purple Russian
Lemon Boy
Yellow Pear
Jubilee
Caspian Pink
Big Beef
Sungold
Green Zebra
Green Oregon |
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Glasnost
Carmelo
Aunt Ruby’s German
Black Krim
Glacier
Early Girl
San Francisco Fog
Spring
Siletz Stupice
Sweet Million
Celebrity |
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 California Certified Organic Farmers
All the organic CCOF tomatoes we sell at Sloat Garden Center are locally grown in Sebastopol, Santa Cruz and St. Helena. The CCOF label means that they are organically grown from seeds that have not been genetically engineered and without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers.
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Cherry Tomato Salad with Mint & Champagne Vinegar
Serves 4 as a side dish
1pint mixed Cherry Tomatoes, halved horizontally
12 broad leaves of fresh Mint, finely sliced
1 small shallot (or 1/2 small red onion), minced
3T Champagne Vinegar (or use Champagne or Sparkling wine!)
3T Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Sea Salt and Cracked Black Pepper to Taste
Combine all ingredients and season to taste. Let stand 20 minutes before serving.
View more recipes using tomatoes here.
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Kitchen Gardener Notes:
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Sloat Recipe Box
To view recipes you can make with fresh fruits, herbs and vegetables grown in the garden, visit our recipe box »
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Read last month's issue of The Kitchen Gardener — Find out more for growing your favorite herbs.
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Ask the Edible Guru
An interesting question about companion planting for edibles
can be found here.
Edible seminar for May:
Grow Earth Box Veggies in Small Spaces
Sloat staffers Shelley Mitchell & Milo Burkholder demonstrate how to plant up an Earth Box.
May 9–San Rafael, Mitchell, Sat., 10 am
May 9–Danville, Burkholder, Sat., 10 am
May 31–Mill Valley (Miller), Mitchell, Sun., 10 am
View from the Blog
The spittle bugs have returned!! Learn more about these globs of foam...
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Have a garden recipe to share? Submit it
here. If we pick your recipe we'll mail you a $25 Sloat Garden Center gift card! (Note: Recipes need to include vegetables, fruit or herbs you can grow in the garden).
Grow your Own
The pleasure of eating fruits, herbs and vegetables harvested yourself is so sublime that sometimes mere words cannot do this experience justice.
Read more about growing your own herbs, fruits and vegetables, here.
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