Aug 24th
We're absolutely delighted with the media coverage we've received from rural Australian press recently. It's good to find editors who understand how incredibly popular growing tomatoes at home has become. Click on the images below to read the full stories.
Tags: fathers day, press coverage, Tomatoes
Aug 13th
We're very pleased to announce that many Mitre 10 and associated hardware stores around Australia are now stocking our book How to Grow Juicy Tasty Tomatoes. This is really exciting news as it means the books are accessible to people in all areas of Australia and they can purchase them immediately instead of having to ...
Tags: mitre 10, tomato book
Jul 30th
Click on the image above to read the great How to Grow Juicy Tasty Tomatoes article We're absolutely delighted that the wonderful Blues Country magazine published a lovely feature on our book How to Grow Juicy Tasty Tomatoes.
This wonderful magazine is distributed throughout Qld, NT, NSW and WA in Australia and is ...
Tags: blues country, magazine, media coverage, press article
Jun 29th
Organic gardening has often been thought of as the preserve of eccentrics who refused to accept the self-evident truth that twentieth-century progress had transformed the ancient art of gardening. Why did they fiddle around with compost and garlic spray when modern fertilisers and insecticides were so much more efficient and easier to use?
Opinions have changed, ...
Tags: growing tomatoes, organic gardening, organic tomatoes, Tomatoes
Jun 22nd
Planting by the moon is a method that has been practised in rural communities for over two thousand years. It is believed that planting by the phases of the Moon provides a superior garden. Seeds germinate faster. Plants are hardier and more disease-resistant. They blossom sooner and bear more fruit.
Just as importantly, they better resist ...
Tags: moon growing, planting by moon phases, Tomatoes
May 10th
Late blight is caused by the fungal disease Phytophthora infestans – one of the most devastating diseases of its time. It was the cause of the great Irish potato famine in the 1850’s. Such was the starvation, that millions of Irish people emigrated – just to find food.
Late blight is a disease that mainly attacks ...
Tags: late blight, tomato diseases, Tomatoes