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    Simple Container Gardening: Tomatoes
    Simple Container Gardening: Tomatoes
    Simple Container Gardening: Tomatoes
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    Simple Container Gardening: Tomatoes

    By Sally Burnes

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    There is nothing more satisfying than tasting the first tomato from your garden each season. With other 30 years experience growing container tomatoes in conditions from searing deserts to cool temperate climes Sally brings the reader her relaxed and non militant gardening approach. She encourages you to be innovative as she guides you to growing those sweet, tasty tomatoes all year long.
    Sally writes..."My book is about encouraging you to enrich your life, not enrich the owner of the hardware store or plant nursery. This book is designed to encourage you, the amateur gardener, to try to grow tomatoes regardless of your circumstances and your climatic situation."
    Topics covered in this book include throwing out the rule book and having fun growing tomatoes, what containers to use, different seed types, using urine as a fertiliser, tomato disease cures, growing tomatoes indoors, using grow lights on tomatoes, and how to grow tomatoes in winter.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSally Burnes
    Release dateMay 27, 2014
    ISBN9781311839831
    Simple Container Gardening: Tomatoes
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    Sally Burnes

    Sally is an Australian author who writes under a variety of pen names. Her gardening series is the first time she is writing under her own name.With many years of experience behind her she brings a refreshing look at everyday life with her unique and straight forward style.

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      Book preview

      Simple Container Gardening - Sally Burnes

      SIMPLE CONTAINER GARDENING - TOMATOES

      Smashwords Edition

      * * * * *

      Published By Sally Burnes

      at Smashwords

      * * * * *

      Published by Sally Burnes

      Simple Container Gardening – Tomatoes

      Copyright © 2014 by Sally Burnes

      This ebook MAY NOT be distributed through any file sharing mechanism. Any copy of this ebook obtained in such a manner is an illegal copy.

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

      Images licensed by Depositphotos.com/ 8vfandp,fedricofoto, frank 11, photozirka, sasimoto, wvebreakmedia, pinnacleanimate,

      Dedicated to all you avid tomato growers.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. Please do not distribute this ebook freely, you can purchase a copy at your nearest online retailer.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      THROW OUT THE RULE BOOK

      FULL SUN?

      MY EXPERIENCES

      WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES

      WHAT DO YOU NEED?

      HEIRLOOM VS HYBRID

      INDETERMINATE VS DETERMINATE

      CONTAINERS

      WHAT TYPE OF TOMATO?

      SEEDLINGS AND PLANTING OUT

      THE SOIL

      NUTRIENT

      URINE AS A FERTILISER

      WATER

      TOMATO MAINTENANCE

      TOMATO DISEASES

      RIPENING YOUR TOMATOES

      GROWING OVER WINTER

      COMPANION PLANTING

      TOMATO RECIPES

      TOMATO SONGS

      TOMATO JOKES

      TOMATOES IN LITERATURE

      IN CONCLUSION

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      SIMPLE CONTAINER GARDENING - TOMATOES

      INTRODUCTION

      Hello, my name is Sally. For the past five years I have been an author writing under many different pen names, but recently I thought it’s about time I write about something I really love, and that is growing fruit and vegetables. After all, I have been doing that for thirty years!

      So here I am.

      I wondered what I should write about first, and to me it was obvious. I love tomatoes, how can you ever forget that amazing taste of the first tomato from your garden each year? Most of my experiences in growing them have been in less than ideal conditions in some form of container or another so I thought I might be able to pass on some useful ideas. I also get a little riled whenever I read gardening books because the authors are often so militant and demanding. I don’t like that style; I like to encourage people to try their own ways, to experiment, to be free. You should enjoy your gardening, not feel pressured by the narrow mindedness of a gardening author.

      But before we start, I think I need to fine tune your expectations and introduce some understanding of what my conditions are so that you can modify my comments to your own circumstances.

      I live in Australia.

      Thirty years ago, I lived in a hot and dry desert area; today I live in a cool and temperate area. I will describe these in more detail a little further on.

      People from all over the world will read this book so please bear this in mind. It is no good me saying grow Tomato Variety X if that is not known to you. I will have to keep comments about varieties quite general so that a person in England can understand what I am saying just as much as someone in Australia or America. There do appear to be some commonalities between us. For example we all seem to share the idea of a cherry tomato; we all seem to have Mortgage Lifter as a variety! We don’t all have San Francisco Fog as a variety.

      Throughout the book I will also mention any measurements using the metric system with the imperial system in brackets – like this… 25 degrees C(77F).

      The purpose of this series of gardening books, that I am starting with this edition, is to encourage you, the reader, to grow your own produce regardless of where you live and how much room you might have for growing. Even if you grow only one dwarf tomato plant on a window sill, the taste reward will be something you remember for the rest of your life. This is all about you trying things.

      So why don’t we start our journey together now and

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