Tomatoes for Everyone: A Practical Guide to Growing Tomatoes All Year Round [Paperback]

Allen Gilbert (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1999

Choose from 100s of varieties, and grow them from seeds or grafts, in non-dig gardens and pots, or by using hydroponics.

Product Details

• Paperback: 151 pages
• Publisher: Hyland House (November 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1864470194
• ISBN-13: 978-1864470192
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,524,491 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A plum book, April 3, 2000

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This review is from: Tomatoes for Everyone: A Practical Guide to Growing Tomatoes All Year Round (Paperback)

This is THE book for anyone who wants to know virtually everything about what rates as the world's most popular vegetable among home gardeners. Although the tomato itself originated in South America this book tells how varieties now include the Black Russian, Colossal Yellow and Dwarf Wax as well as many more familiar red tomatoes found in Europe, the US and the author's native Australia. There are plenty of pictures telling us how to grow, graft and keep healthy tomatoes in our own backyards and Mr Gilbert even shows how they manage to cultivate them in China's Gobi Desert. Hints on harvesting and storing are followed by a very useful, easy to read 'everything you want to know' chart detailing more than 120 varieties. In between are the gardeners' prizes - recipes to help you savour the fruits of your labours! In short almost anyone can grow (and eat) tomatoes and this compact book is the ideal reference work for enthusiasts everywhere.