Cal Poly’s Tomatozania sale begins March 18
Cal Poly Pomona’s Tomatozania, featuring hundreds of varieties of tomato plants for sale, will begin March 18 at the Cal Poly Pomona Farm Store, 4102 S. University Drive, Pomona.
Varieties range from the well-known San Marzano, Better Boy, green zebra and Cherokee purple to the Abu Rawan, blue cream, berries, Braveheart, St. Pierre, tiedye pink and many more. There will be plants for large gardens, those that flourish in containers and micro tomato plants.
All the plants were propagated and grown by Cal Poly Pomona student employees who are plant sciences majors, according to a news release. Proceeds benefit the plant sciences program and the students.
The Cal Poly Pomona Farm Store is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. every day.
Cal Poly Pomona’s annual Tomatozania sale began in 1997, and its reputation has spread throughout the San Gabriel Valley and beyond.
In 2019, about 1,600 people bought more than 6,000 plants at the beginning of the sale, with an additional 5,000 plants having been sold in the weeks that followed, according to the news release.
For information on tomato varieties that will be available at the sale, go to calpolypomonanursery.com.
In addition to the tomato plants, the nursery will have a variety of spring plants available, including herbs, zucchini, squash, cucumbers, beans, lettuce, strawberries, dragon fruit and more.
Cal Poly’s pepper sales also are coming soon. Pepperzania, featuring more than 140 varieties of peppers, will begin April 15, and the Ultimate Pepper Event, with more than 60 varieties of superhot peppers including the Carolina reaper, chocolate champion and Apocalypse Scorpion, starts June 10.