{"id":1762,"date":"2014-09-26T16:58:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T23:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ext100.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/?page_id=1762"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:14:17","slug":"tomatotasting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/mg-home\/tomatotasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomato Tasting Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2014\/05\/tomatotasting2012.png\" alt=\"tomato tasting\" class=\"wp-image-1088\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Visitors to our Community Education Garden rank and vote on their favorite tomatoes in our annual tomato tasting event, and learn tips for growing these summer favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We thank Winton MFG. Compost Works for supporting and sponsoring this popular event on  August 15, 2026.  Join us 10 am to noon at the Garden on Western at Springwater, in Wenatchee, WA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Join us on the third Saturday in August<\/strong>:<br> \u2022 Sample known and not-so-well-known tomato varieties<br> \u2022 Discover your favorite tomatoes to grow next year<br> \u2022 Your votes have a direct impact on the varieties we offer in our spring plant sale<br> \u2022 A diagnostics team is available to answer questions and help solve your gardening problems<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which varieties were rated highest by our tasters in 2024?<\/strong><br>\nWe asked attendees to rate&nbsp; their favorite tomatoes in&nbsp; categories: Overall, Heirloom, Cherry, Hybrid, and Paste. The voting results are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Overall favorite: Sun Sugar, a cherry &#8211; 17 votes; Paul Robeson, an heirloom &#8211; 7; Sunrise Bumblebee, a cherry &#8211; 5; Super Fantastic, a hybrid &#8211; 4. Many ballots did not select an overall favorite.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heirlooms: Paul Robeson &#8211; 22 votes; Brandywine &#8211; 15; Gold Medal &#8211; 14; Subarctic Plenty and Blue Beauty tied-10 each. The heirloom category had by far the largest selection of varieties<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hybrids: Super Fantastic &#8211; 37; Early Doll &#8211; 16; Defiant &#8211; 14<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cherry: Sun Sugar &#8211; 41; Sun Gold and Sunrise Bumblebee tied &#8211; 13; Super Sweet 100 &#8211; 12<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paste: San Marzano &#8211; 37; Cour di Bue &#8211; 30; Ox Heart &#8211; 15<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Are you growing tomatoes?<\/strong>&nbsp; Read <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.wp.wsu.edu\/uploads\/sites\/2070\/2019\/09\/FS145E.pdf\">Growing Tomatoes in Home Gardens (PDF)<\/a> from WSU<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You sampled tomatoes<\/strong>, now try tomato recipes Master Gardeners share with the Tomato Tasting Gala &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/08\/Tomato-GalaRrecipes2024.pdf\">2024 (PDF)<\/a> &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2024\/07\/TomatoGalaRecipes2023.pdf\">2023 (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to our Community Education Garden rank and vote on their favorite tomatoes in our annual tomato tasting event, and learn tips for growing these summer favorites. We thank Winton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":null},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"cahnrs_clean_page_nonce":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15962,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1762\/revisions\/15962"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}