By Kira Hamman

We’ve mentioned the East Nashville Tomato Art Fest here before.

The celebration, held each August in East Nashville, Tennessee, touts the power of the tomato to bridge differences, a power organizers say it owes to its own blurry fruit/vegetable identity.

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By Reggie Solomon

• Steve Martin submits an essay to WeHoNews.com describing his tomato obsession and his experience at Tomatomania, the world’s largest tomato seedling sale.

• Tracy at Rah Cha Chow rejects a tomato a peanut butter combination slight made on TV’s Top Shelf and creates a tomato and peanut soup for her family that leaves her guests licking the bowl.

• Thanks to my fellow Connecticut gardener at Compostings, for helping us find this great article by wife and husband team at A Sonoma Garden who share how they use PVC pipe buried in the earth to water their tomato roots.

• You know Tomato Casual hearts urban gardens. Urban gardener Nathaniel Martin at The Self Sufficient Urbanite grows his tomatoes up chain-link fence in the city.

By Reggie Solomon

• It’s spring, and Tomato Casual is growing. We’ve added some new features that you may have noticed. Next week, we’ll tell you how “Everything Tomato for People Who Love Tomatoes” is going to provide you with even more ways to connect with others who love tomatoes as much as you do!

• Gayla Trail at You Grow Girl encourages lightly brushing your hands against tomato leaves to stimulate a growth hormone in the plant encouraging radial growth.

• Horticulturist Leslie Finical Halleck at Grow Lively has luck germinating her tomato seeds outside after a torrential flood, hail storm and freeze.

• Kate at The Root has success germinating Black Krim seeds after feeding the soil dried milk.

• Hanna at This Garden Is Illegal has the right idea when she sets up summer tomato tastings.

• TC Flashback: How to Flirt Your Way to Choosing Better Tomato Plants