Become a Tomato Gardening Expert

and Have Fun Doing It

Successful tomato gardening is the top priority for many gardeners.  That’s why thousands of people search the internet, like you are doing right now, hoping to find tomato gardening techniques that REALLY WORK!

Please forgive our boldness in saying this, but you have found the place - we believe the BEST place - for quickly learning how to get spectacular tomato gardening results.

Whether you like large or small tomatoes, heirloom or hybrid, and whether you want to grow them in a pot on a patio or fill the garden with them; whether you grow organically, hydroponically, or anywhere in between, you will soon be the local expert in producing all the delicious, healthy, vine-ripened tomatoes you ever wanted.

And you will harvest MORE of them earlier AND later than your neighbors think possible, with a minimum investment of time and money.

How is all this possible?  I’ll tell you quickly and simply, and then get to the good stuff - the book that does it all.

Dr. Jacob R. Mittleider - a world-renowned grower, teacher and author of gardening books - LOVES tomatoes, and he has grown them personally in almost 100 often difficult locations around the world for over 60 years.

He has devoted the last 40 years to helping others learn to grow their own food, and he created 9 great vegetable gardening books, 9 subject-specific Manuals, gardening computer software, and 90 gardening training videos in the process.

Let’s Grow Tomatoes is one of Jacob’s favorite books.  It’s filled with graphics and pictures that quickly show you everything you need to know, and it’s presented logically and clearly for rapid understanding.

We believe this is the best tomato gardening book available anywhere for growing tomatoes with great yields of the healthiest and most tasty tomatoes possible.  And you’ll learn how to do it either outside in soil or containers, or in an inexpensive greenhouse.

You’ll learn:

1. Seedling production, and how to put bigger, healthier plants into your garden earlier than you thought possible.

2. Transplanting, in stages, so your plants have thick, strong, and healthy stems and green leaves.

3. Close planting, to make the most of limited space, save water and fertilizer, and minimize weed growth.

4. Vertical growing of not only tomatoes but all vining and climbing plants, which greatly increases yields in the least space possible.

5. Automatic watering, which will take the drudgery out of this time-consuming chore while saving as much as 50% of the water.

6. Proper feeding to give you healthy and fast-growing plants that are resistant to bugs and diseases.

7. Weeding, done so quickly and easily you’ll be amazed, so that weeds will never become a problem.

8. and Pruning the way the experts do, so your plants will produce the maximum yield.

These important lessons are illustrated with hundreds of illustrations and pictures to teach you all you ned to know.

Let’s Grow Tomatoes is the best thing you can have to quickly learn to grow lots of healthy and tasty tomatoes.

You’ll also learn:

1. The “best of organic” gardening methods,

2. How to build your own inexpensive greenhouse,

3. How to grow your own seedlings using the “poor man’s hydroponic system”,

4. How to extend your growing season by 4 to 6 weeks in both spring and fall, and

5. how to multiply your garden yield many times by growing vertically.

All these important tomato growing lessons are taught and illustrated by one of the world’s best and most experienced vegetable gardening teachers, with over 60 years’ experience personally growing, teaching, and demonstrating the very best growing principles and procedures in 27 countries around the world.

After growing your tomato garden using Let’s Grow Tomatoes, the biggest problem you’ll have is figuring out what to do with all the tomatoes.  This is what you can expect - from a small backyard garden!

Get Let’s Grow Tomatoes NOW and your tomato garden will be a thing of beauty -

no matter what your soil or climate are like,

with NO soil amendments,

using NO pesticides or herbicides,

and using less than half the water of a traditional garden.

Let’s Grow Tomatoes will quickly teach you the secrets of the Mittleider Method of gardening that’s been taught and loved by millions of families in more than 35 countries around the world. And you can have it TODAY!

Buy the electronic book now at $10.95 and save 40% over the paper copy (which we ran out of).  Order Now!

Or get it as part of The Mittleider Gardening Library CD - a Searchable Database of the 9 Mittleider gardening books and 9 subject-specific manuals - at www.growfood.com.

Growing Tomatoes Vertically - How

to Prune

In order to harvest a large amount of healthy home-grown tomatoes in a small space indeterminate plants should be used and grown vertically using stakes, or T-Frames and baling twine strings. This requires that you allow the plant to have only one or two stems, and eliminate all others by pruning.

Let’s first discuss how to remove all the sucker stems. This is the major function of pruning tomatoes.

Where the leaf branch grows out from the main stem (in the crotch) pinch off the new growth that comes out of that area. But make sure you don’t pinch out the top growth. When in doubt stay away from the top of the plant.

Also, stay away from the blossoms that grow about an inch above the leaf node or crotch. Those become your fruit.

To maximize your tomato yield, you must manage the plant’s growth. This could be compared to the biblical pruning of the vineyard.

A single plant, taking up less than one lineal foot of space, can produce 15 to 30# of fruit - but only if you keep it to one or two main stems. Remember, we’re doing “Modified Hydroponics” here, and the hydroponic and greenhouse growers know what they are doing when they prune to one main stem per plant.

Prune the sucker stems from Indeterminate varieties only! Right at the point where each leaf grows out from the stem, a new (sucker) stem will appear and begin to grow. Take it off, and the sooner the better. Don’t let the plant waste energy growing the sucker stem. But DO NOT remove the leaf - only the sucker stem growing between the leaf and the stem!!

Once your plant has several sets of leaves, it will begin producing blossoms. THESE BECOME YOUR TOMATOES. They appear about one inch ABOVE the leaf joint, or node as it’s called. NEVER take off the blossoms. Remember, that’s your fruit!

Both pruning and guiding your tomatoes up the baling-twine string should be done religiously, at least once each week for every plant.

You may also need to prune some leaves, or parts of leaves, to prevent them from overlapping with the leaves of adjacent plants and competing for essential sunlight. Minimize your problems from over-crowding of your plants by allowing adequate space for each plant to grow to maturity in full sunlight.

Using T-Frames , and having alternating plants go to the opposite side of the T, allows you to plant closer together and maximizes your yield in a given space. For growing vertically using T-Frames read the paragraphs below.