For this installment of Tomato Watch we took a trip down to Watsonville for a visit with Joe Schirmer of Dirty Girl Produce. We got some cool tractor footage, a crash course in dry farming, and learned all about capillarity!

Dry farming tomatoes can only work when there is coastal fog, making it unique to certain areas. We’ll hear more from Joe about this technique in the following weeks.

Water is going to be another huge issue for all our farmers this year, and there will be more discussion about how they are handling that as the season progresses.