Learn all the Secrets from a World Renowned Plant Disease and Nutritionist who Advises the Professional Growers
If you’re sick of the thick skinned, tasteless balls, covered in chemicals, that they charge a fortune for in supermarkets, the answer is easy. Grow your own. It’s a very enjoyable and rewarding past time, as millions of people around the world know. However you do need to follow a set of well tested guidelines to ensure your plants stay healthy and produce masses of juicy fruit. You don’t want disease or pests or soil problems destroying all your beautiful tomatoes!
Let me tell you though, surfing the internet, trying to find answers to all your tomato growing problems and then trying to sort out the facts from the anecdotal drivel is tough work.
I was fed up with reading conflicting advice, planting lots of varieties, experimenting with fertilizer and watering, losing too many tomatoes to disease and only getting a couple of kilos each harvest. I was at my wits end. Then I had a stroke of good luck! I ran into a former colleague who I hadn’t seen for some time. She has a Masters Degree in Plant Disease and works as a Plant Nutrition Advisor for a global company in the horticultural industry. I begged her to tell me what I was doing wrong! She came around and had a look at my plants and in 5 minutes flat she had diagnosed four simple problems! All those months of frustration ended right there. She saved me heaps of time and money with her advice. While we were talking a neighbour popped in and soon she began telling my friend about the problems she was having with her crop. So we went next door and had a look at her plants and sure enough she had a few of the same problems as well, plus a couple of extra ones.
We were both guilty of incorrect pruning – so our plants were covered with lots of small fruit and not too many big ones
Neither of us had a clue really when it came to watering, particularly during the severe drought we’d just lived through.
Within minutes Lucia (my former colleague) had told us how to fix these problems and what we needed to do when we planted our next crop to minimise the chances of these issues happening again. Sure enough – my next crop was a lot healthier than I had ever been able to achieve before, and so was my neighbour’s. Needless to say our surrounding neighbours and visiting friends were amazed (and a little envious I suspect) to see the transformation. They wanted to know what we had done, if they too could meet my friend. I contacted Lucia and told here she’d caused a bit of stir among tomato growers in my area! Lots of people wanted her help. However she is in great demand professionally and travels extensively with her job, training university researchers, professional growers, horticulturists and garden produce store owners. When she’s not traveling she’s writing technical articles about plant nutrition and disease control and conducting crop trials.
We had a dilemma. How could Lucia’s valuable knowledge be made available to all home growers, instead of just the professional growers? I’ll tell you how . . . We decided to put it all into a book. A book which is focused totally on tomatoes. Lucia sifted through her reams and reams of technical articles and presentations and I gave her a hand putting it all together into simple language that we could all understand. We added hundreds of photos and captions to make it even better. I canvassed all my friends and neighbors to find out what they wanted to know most and made sure that the book had all the answers they needed. We then talked to growers in other countries to find out what they wanted to know and made sure that those questions were also answered. So – we’ve ended up with a whopping 80 page “Bible” of tomato growing tips. A book filled with an incredible amount of detail and photos on every aspect of choosing, planting and cultivating healthy tasty tomatoes. A book which provides all the answers for tomato lovers in every country – no matter how small (or big) your garden is, or what sort of problems you face.
IMPORTANT: The facts contained in How to Grow Juicy Tasty Tomatoesare the result of years of research. This book is a valuable reference guide which is used around the world by professional horticulturists and novice gardeners alike. The book was written by a highly qualified and well respected plant expert. It was not written by an “author for hire” and it is not based on amateur’s anecdotes.
“If you have a question about tomatoes and its not covered in this book I’d be most surprised” Debbie McDonald, Gardening Australia Magazine
Following your advice my plants are 4 times bigger than before I have read and reread the book over and over and l now have a better understanding of the life of the tomato from start to finish.Thankyou for all the time and effort you have put into this information and kept in mind to make it easy to understand. l conducted a trial by putting what you have said in your book into practice in my hot house. One plant I did your way, the other my way as I’ve always done it. l have also done the same trial with ones in the ground and their doing even better. l cant believe the growth rate of the plant – the stem is much thicker, leaves have more colour and it’s stronger looking all over. Most books that l have brought on tomatoes are ok but do not give you the understanding of the life cycle of tomatoes that is easy to understand as your information does… Read more…