Just in time for tomato season: Learn to grow great tomatoes!

Are you new to tomato growing? Have you been growing them for a while but want to pick up some new tips? This is the class for you. We’ll cover the basics of raising bountiful, healthy tomatoes, including:

• How to read tomato seed packets

• The different types of tomatoes

• The differences between determinate and indeterminate tomatoes and how to care for both

• Tomato soil needs and amendments for bigger yields

• Basic tomato care, including pruning, staking or trellising and growing in containers

• How to identify and deal with common tomato pests

You’ll leave with the confidence to successfully care for your own tomatoes as well as a CGC-grown tomato plant to get you started.

Meet the Presenter: As the CGC’s Urban Agriculture Coordinator, Kymisha Montgomery supports a network of over 60 community gardens through network development, organization, trainings and technical advice. She got her gardening start at a local community garden, where she gained a wealth of information but was eager to feed her new fascination with growing food. Misha is a graduate of both the Ohio State University Master Gardener Program and the Cincinnati State College Dietetics Program. Throughout her pre-CGC career, she has combined growing food and healthy eating to change practices and policies within the Department of Corrections, assisted UC Hospital’s food service department with composting and sustainability efforts, managed public greenspaces and served on the Greater Cincinnati Food Policy Team. She is also a monthly guest on WVXU’s gardening show.

Cost: $15 / $10 for active CGC volunteers