🍅 Tomato tasting 🍅

Free Event: Join us for the Tomato Tasting 🍅 on Saturday , September 20th, 10:00 AM at the Learning Center for Gardening - 771 E Main Street, Newark, Ohio.

Taste and help judge a dozen different tomato varieties grown in the Licking County Master Gardeners Learning Garden, fresh as can be!. No registration is required, just stop in and enjoy a late morning of fresh flavors and gardening conversation.

There are 24 varieties growing in the garden this season. The tasting selection will depend on what is ripe that day, but possible varieties include:

• Abe Lincoln
• Amana Orange
• Amish Paste
• Best Boy
• Black Krim
• Bodacious
• Cherry Baby
• Crimson Cushion Beefsteak
• Large Red Cherry
• Marglobe
• Mountain Merit
• Old Fashioned Goliath
• Opalka
• Oregon Spring
• Persimmon
• Pink Brandywine
• Red Brandywine
• Roma
• San Marzano
• Saucy Lady
• Super Sweet 100 Cherry
• Zapotec Oaxaca
• Better Boy
• Lillian’s Yellow

There is separate judging for regular tomatoes and cherry tomatoes.

Pick your favortiws- and theb come back In May when many of these varieties will also be available at the Licking County Master Gardener Annual Plant Sale on May 9, 2026.