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Kitchen Garden:

A celebration of flavourful tomatoes at The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney

February and March are the months for sun-warmed tomatoes, rather than the oft bragged about ripe tomatoes by Christmas - they have no flavour. The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney holds an annual Tomato Festival in mid-February. I visited the gardens three days before the event and met a fellow pruning trees near the Art Gallery gates. We had a chat and he told me about the Tomato Mandala he was responsible for creating.

To my later delight I discovered he was Jimmy Turner, director of horticulture at the Botanic Garden and Centennial Parklands. The huge array of multi-hued tomatoes were purchased from Harris Farm Markets. Crowds at the festival can eat at a long lunch, win a prize for homemade passata, learn how to grow and preserve tomatoes and purchase Red Robin tomato and herb plants raised by the Friends of the Botanic Garden, sponsored by W & D Lynch of Rossmore Plants and Herbs.

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