Review: Tomato Tomato
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 6, 2013
I first got this book because I’ve started gardening, to save money, and I also find it therapeutic. The pinnacle of my garden for some reason is the tomato plant. I’ve managed to grow some vegetables, some I like, like cilantro, strawberries, potatoes, and carrots, and others I did just for fun and don’t care too much about like cabbage, but when I started getting into growing tomatoes everything started off strong then after watering, admittedly at night and directly on the plant (didn’t have a clue) I ruined my crop and within the next few days I got late blight. Nothing doing, I had to remove all these plants and scrap the project, but not before it spread to my potatoes and killed them as well. So, I decided to start over and luckily I bought this book in the nick of time. I was about to make the same mistakes all over again and not even know it. Aside, from the great knowledge about growing this book possesses I learned a few things I didn’t know at all. For instance, people used to be afraid of tomatoes and thought that if they ate them they would die. This was up until the 1820’s, crazy what we take for granted with our modern know-how and technological meddling. Also, all those eggshells I was throwing away are now going to go to good use. For me this is a very good guide for growing tomatoes with techniques I’ve already started to employ in my garden. So for this reason I’m recommending this book. I’m rating it four out of five stars for the simple reason that as much as the love of and knowledge of tomatoes shines through the writing (stupid technical aspects) needs a little longer to fully ripen only to solidify the fun aspect and not so much the technical per se. All in all though grab this if you want to learn more about tomato growing and ignore a grumpy English majors need for literary perfection. Especially one who can spell tomato but can’t (as yet) grow one. Great read, fun book, with very useful information.